E-Act Parkwood Academy

When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (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 — A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously 'looked after' but immediately after being 'looked after', became the subject of an adoption, residence order or special guardianship order as defined in the Notes attached.
2. 2Exceptional and Compelling Medical, Psychological, Social or Special Access Reasons — The definition of which and process to be followed is set out in the Notes attached, which can only be met at the Academy. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must be completed within the timescales for the point of entry required.
3. 3Siblings — Siblings (as defined in the Notes attached) of pupils currently on the roll at the Academy at the time of application for the proposed admission of the applicant.
4. 4Designated Feeder School — Children at a Designated Feeder School (in the case of the Academy the Designated Feeder Schools are Pathways E-ACT Primary Academy, Watercliffe and Oasis Watermead) on 31 October 2021.
5. 5Catchment area — Children living in the catchment area on 31 October 2021.
6. 6Pupil Premium / Service Pupil Premium — Children who at the time of the application are eligible for the Pupil Premium or the Service Pupil Premium, each defined in the attached Notes. A SIF form must be completed within the timescales for the point of entry required.
7. 7Staff children — Children whose parent/carer is a member of staff who has either been continuously employed at the Academy for two (2) or more years at the time of application for a place or has been recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. A SIF form must be completed within the timescales for the point of entry required.
8. 8Any other applications - nearest distance — Any other applications of which priority of placement will be given to children who live nearest to the Academy (including if this address is with a parent/carer with shared responsibility for the child or not). The child's home address will be the child's permanent place of residency and must not be a business address, or the address of a relative or carer, unless they have legal custody of the child. Applications must only be made from a single address.

If two applications tie: Once the above rules have been applied, and if there were to be a tie within any of the above rules, then any further places will be offered in distance order - Home to school distances will be measured in a direct line from a point on the home address as held by Sheffield Council defined in the Local Land and Property Gazetteer, (or similar property database) to a central point within the main Academy building using Sheffield City Council's computerised mapping system. Where two or more applicants have a home address at the same distance from Academy and it is necessary to decide which child will be admitted, random allocation will be used. The random allocation process will be independently supervised.

Children with an EHCP naming the Academy are admitted prior to offers made via co-ordination and are included in the school's PAN. Multiple births: if the next pupil due to be admitted is part of a twin/triplet/multiple birth group, all may be admitted even if this exceeds capacity.

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.