Kingsdale Foundation School

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. 1Previously Looked After / Looked After Children — Children in public care (Looked After Children) or children who were Looked After, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence or special guardianship order) i.e. Previously Looked After - PLAC or Internationally Adopted Previously Looked After Children - IAPLAC (see Note 6)
2. 2Music/Sport scholarship aptitude — Children who satisfy our scholarship criteria based on aptitude for music or sport i.e. 15% of admissions entry number. Please refer to paragraph 1.2 and scholarship oversubscription criteria (Appendix A) for more information
3. 3Siblings — Children who will have brothers or sisters attending the School at their time of entry (see Note 7)
4. 4Staff children — Children of members of staff where the member of staff has been employed permanently at the School for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the School is made and will still be employed by the School on the date of admission
5. 5Exceptional medical/social/psychological need — Where professional evidence indicates that there are particular psychological, medical or social needs which the School's Learning Support Faculty agrees only Kingsdale has the capability of addressing or meeting and significant difficulties would arise were the applicant to attend a different school (see Note 8)
6. 6Feeder Primary Schools — A maximum of 55 Children applying from designated Feeder Primary Schools in accordance with the number of allocated places per school (See Note 9)
7. 7Random allocation within ability band — Random allocation within each ability band. This process will be supervised by a person not employed by and who is independent of the School (see Note 10)

If two applications tie: Random allocation within each ability band. This process will be supervised by a person not employed by and who is independent of the School (see Note 10). This criterion is also used as a tie breaker to differentiate between two equal applicants with respect to admission and oversubscription criteria i, ii, iii, iv & v in paragraph 2.1.

Applicants who do not satisfy scholarship criteria are placed into one of 3 ability bands according to assessment scores; after EHCP-named children are allocated places, places within each band are allocated in the order of priority i-vii listed above. Where places become vacant in a band and no applicants remain in that band, they are filled alternately by children in adjacent bands. Sixth Form (Year 12) has separate arrangements: capacity 200, PAN for external applicants is 40, with academic entry requirements by pathway (A Level, Technical, Transition).

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.