Carterton Community College

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after / previously looked after children — Children who are "looked after" (LAC) by a Local Authority within the meaning of Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989 at the time of their application, and all "previously looked after" children (PLAC), including those who appear to this Admission Authority to have been in state care outside England (IAPLAC) and ceased to be in state care having been adopted.
2. 2Catchment area + sibling — Children who live in the catchment area and have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry.
3. 3Catchment area — Children who live in the catchment area.
4. 4Sibling outside catchment — Children who have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry but live outside the catchment area.
5. 5All other children — All other children who do not live in the catchment area and also do not have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry.

If two applications tie: In all categories above, priority will be given to children who are eligible for Service Pupil Premium and then to children who live closest to the school by the straight-line distance as calculated by Oxfordshire County Council.

Local-authority coordinated default oversubscription criteria for Oxfordshire County Council's community and voluntary-controlled schools (the council is the admission authority). Some community/voluntary-controlled schools in this authority apply catchment-area, feeder-school or priority-area variants — check the individual school for its exact arrangements. This is the core default ordered criteria shared across Reception entry (normal phased transfer / in-year Reception-Year6) and in-year Years 7-11 transfers. The normal phased transfer to Year 7 (Carterton Community College, the only community secondary in Oxfordshire) uses an expanded 9-rank version of this same list that additionally inserts designated-feeder-school criteria (feeder+catchment+sibling; feeder+catchment; feeder+sibling outside catchment; feeder only) between/around the core catchment and sibling categories. There are no community/voluntary controlled infant or junior schools, so Year 3 entry criteria do not apply. Children with an EHC Plan naming the school must always be admitted before oversubscription criteria are applied, though the document states this is not itself an oversubscription criterion.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.