Stoke Damerel Community College

When there are more applications than places for 2025-26 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Priority 1: Looked After Children — Priority for Looked After Children or children who were Previously Looked After. A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order including those who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Priority 2: Exceptional Medical/Social Needs — Priority for students who have an exceptional social and/or medical need. Students who have either medical or social grounds for admission to this school. This evidence must set out the particular reason why the student should attend this school rather than any other and show that this is the only suitable school to meet their stated needs, why no other local school could meet those needs and what the difficulties would be if the child had to attend any other local school.
3. 3Priority 3: Children of permanent members of staff — Priority for children of permanent members of staff of the school where: the member of staff has been employed at Stoke Damerel Community College Campus for two or more consecutive years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made; or the member of staff has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
4. 4Priority 4: Siblings — Priority for students who will have a sibling at the school at the time of admission. Sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, foster brother or sister, stepbrother or sister, or the child of the parent's partner, as well as children who are brought together as a family by a same-sex civil partnership. In every case, the child must be living in the same family unit at the same address, Monday to Friday, at the time of the application.
5. 5Priority 5: Children attending a feeder primary school — Priority for children attending one of the following feeder primary schools: College Road Primary School, Drake Primary School, Ford Primary School, High Street Primary School, Marlborough Primary Academy, Montpelier Primary School, Morice Town Primary School, Mount Wise Community Primary School, Pilgrim Primary School, St George's CE Primary School, Stoke Damerel Primary Academy, Stuart Road Primary School.
6. 6Priority 6: Distance — Any remaining places will be offered based on proximity of the child's home address to the school. Distances will be measured in a straight line using the computerised system as specified by Plymouth City Council.

If two applications tie: Where two or more applicants share priority for a place, the child to be offered a place will be selected by the drawing of lots. Lots will be drawn by a senior officer of the Greenshaw Learning Trust Shared Service who is independent of the school's admissions process.

Students with an Education Health Care Plan that names the school will be allocated a place before other applicants are considered, reducing the number of places available under the oversubscription criteria. Applications ranked within each priority according to home to school distance. Priority 5 (Feeder Schools) is only relevant at the normal point of entry (Year 7) and does not apply to in-year admissions.

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.