Kingsmead 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. 1Children in care / previously in care — Children in care and children who ceased to be in care because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order), including those children 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. See ‘Additional Notes’
2. 2Children living within the catchment area — Children living within the catchment area of Kingsmead school. See ‘Additional Notes’.
3. 3Siblings attending the school — Children who have an elder sibling in attendance at Kingsmead school and who will still be attending the school at the proposed admission date; (For admission purposes, a brother or sister is a child who lives at the same address and either: have one or both natural parents in common; are related by a parents marriage; are adopted or fostered by a common parent or are unrelated children who live at the same address, whose parents live as partners.)
4. 4Children of staff employed by JT MAT at the school — Children of whose parents are employed by JT MAT to work at Kingsmead School in either or both of the following circumstances (a) Where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or (b) Children whose parents are employed by JT MAT to work at Kingsmead School employees where a member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. 5Proximity of home to school — Other children arranged in order of priority according to how near their home addresses are to the main gate of the school, determined by a straight-line measurement as calculated by the Local Authority’s Geographical Information System. See ‘Additional Notes’

Where a category cannot be fully accommodated, remaining places allocated by resolving remaining criteria in order (e.g. within catchment area applied by criteria 3, then 4, then 5). Waiting lists maintained until 31st December 2027. CATCHMENT: Children living within the catchment area of Kingsmead school. See ‘Additional Notes’. Transcribed from the school's own determined admission arrangements as published by Staffordshire County Council. Children with an EHCP naming the school are admitted first; that is a statutory duty, not 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.