Audenshaw 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 Public Care — Children in Public Care (Looked After Children/Previously Looked After) as per the Admissions Code 2021 A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order including those 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. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989)
2. 2Children and families with exceptional medical or social needs Written evidence must be provided from a doctor or other — Children and families with exceptional medical or social needs Written evidence must be provided from a doctor or other agency that he has exceptional needs which means that admission to a particular school is essential, reference will normally be made to the Community Health Physician, Social Services, or the Educational Psychologist, as appropriate. Members of the school’s Admission Committee will make a decision as to whether to admit a child under this criterion using the evidence provided. All information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence.
3. 3Sibling — Sibling: this will apply where there are brothers attending the school in years 7-10 at the time of application. Preference will be given to students living nearest to the school.* Sibling is defined in these arrangements as children who live as siblings in the same house, including natural siblings, half siblings, adopted siblings. step siblings and foster siblings, and in each case living at the same address. In the case where twins/triplets, other multiple birth siblings or other siblings whose date of birth falls within the same academic year, are split between Audenshaw and another school when allocations take place, siblings will be offered a place at Audenshaw, if that is the parents wish.
4. 4Children of Staff This will apply where — Children of Staff This will apply where: a) A member of staff has been employed by the Governors of the school on a permanent contract for two consecutive years or more at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made. b) The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. 5All other applications on distance — All other applications on distance. Preference will be given to students living nearest to the school.* * Where oversubscription occurs in applying criterion 3, or 5, distance will be measured as a straight line from the child’s home address, using the address point assigned by the National Land and Property Gazetteer, to the main gate to the school property. Measurements will be made using the local authority’s school admissions data mapping software, which employs a Geographical Information System based on Ordnance Survey. The address from which distance will be measured will be the permanent residential address, at the time of application, of the parent with whom the child is normally resident. Where a child lives with parents with shared responsibility, each for part of a week, the home address is the address from which the child travels to school for the majority of school days per week. If the number of days is exactly equal the home

"School Admissions Policy 2027/28", published by the school on its own website (https://www.audenshawschool.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/School-Admissions-Policy-2027-28.pdf).

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.