West Somerset College

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 9), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Children Looked After — Children who are in the care of a Local Authority or have previously been and are now formally adopted or subject to a residence/child arrangement order or special guardianship order.
2. 2High Needs Pupils without an EHCP — Children without an EHCP, identified with a sensory, physical or medical disability (High Needs Pupils), where a multi-agency professional team has identified the school as the nearest suitable school.
3. 3Catchment + sibling — Children living in the catchment area, with a sibling at the school at the time of admission, who live at the same address.
4. 4Catchment — Children living in the catchment area.
5. 5Outside catchment + sibling — Children living outside the catchment area, with a sibling at the school at the time of admission, who live at the same address.
6. 6Outside catchment, nearest — Children outside the catchment area but nearest the school as measured by the LA mapping system (straight-line, address point to address point).

The school must admit a child with an EHCP naming West Somerset College before any of the six numbered criteria are applied (stated separately, not itself numbered). Separately, and also before the oversubscription criteria are applied, all students on roll in Year 8 at the point of transfer have a 'protected place' and transfer automatically into the secondary phase (except EHCP pupils, admitted first) — this materially limits the places actually available under the numbered criteria below, though it is not itself one of the six numbered criteria. Sibling is defined as a child living at the same address as a half/full/adoptive brother or sister, or children of the same household. No explicit tie-break procedure (e.g. random allocation) is stated in this document for exact ties within a criterion or at equal distance.

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.