Three Rivers Academy

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. 1Looked after / previously looked after children — Children in the care of a local authority (LAC) or provided with accommodation by a local authority (Section 22, Children Act 1989); children who have left care through adoption, a child arrangements order or special guardianship order (PLAC); and children previously in state care outside of England who ceased to be in state care through adoption (IAPLAC).
2. 2Exceptional social/medical need — Children with an exceptional social or medical need (relating to the child or parent/carer), supported by evidence from a professional (e.g. doctor/consultant for medical, or social worker/health visitor/housing officer/police/probation officer for social) confirming why the child should attend this school and why no other school could meet the child's needs. Common medical conditions/allergies and routine childminding arrangements would not normally qualify.
3. 3Siblings at the school — A sibling is a brother or sister (of the same parents), half-, step-, adoptive or foster sibling living as part of the same family unit at the same address, on roll at the school at the time of application and expected to still be on roll when the child starts. Where the sibling is in Year 11 or Year 12 at the time of application, they still count under this criterion unless the parent/carer has specifically stated the sibling will not continue into the following academic year.
4. 4Catchment area + named feeder school — Children who live within the catchment area AND attend one of the following feeder schools: Ashley CofE Primary, Bell Farm Primary, Burhill Primary, Grovelands Primary, Walton Oak.
5. 5Catchment area, no feeder school — Children who live in the catchment area who do not attend one of the feeder schools named above.
6. 6Outside catchment area, named feeder school — Children who live outside the catchment area who attend one of the feeder schools named in the fourth criterion.
7. 7All other children — All other children.

If two applications tie: Where a category is oversubscribed, applicants are ranked by straight-line distance from home (Ordnance Survey address point) to the nearest school gate for student use, calculated using Surrey County Council's GIS (mode of transport not considered). Where two or more children are equidistant, random allocation is used. In the case of multiple births with equal priority, if a place can be offered to at least one child, all children from that multiple birth are offered a place, even above PAN.

Children with an EHCP naming the school are allocated a place before other children are considered (stated ahead of the numbered list, not itself numbered). Document states: "Priority for those attending a feeder school will only be applied up until 31 August 2025, the point at which children will be considered to have left a feeder school" - this date (31 August 2025) is quoted verbatim as printed but appears to be a likely template date error for a document covering September 2027 entry (probably intended as 31 August 2027); not corrected here per anti-fabrication rules. Waiting lists run to the end of the 2027-28 academic year.

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.