Windmill Primary School

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

1. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked After Children and previously Looked After children,
2. 2Children living in the school's defined attendance area — Children who live in the school’s defined attendance area.
3. 3Exceptional medical/health reasons within attendance area — those children who have exceptional health reasons where there is written medical evidence that admission to the school is essential for their medical well-being; and then
4. 4Siblings attending the school, living in attendance area — those children who will have, on the day of admission, a brother(s), sister(s), step brother(s), step sister(s), half-brother(s) and half-sister(s) living as a family at the same address and who attend the school; and then
5. 5Other children living in the defined attendance area — other children living in the school’s defined attendance area.
6. 6Applicants outside attendance area, in priority order a-c — Any places which remain available will then be allocated to applicants from outside the school’s defined attendance area in the priority order a) to c) as detailed above.

If two applications tie: If there are not enough places for all the children in any particular category, we will give places on the basis of the straight-line distance between a central point in the school buildings and a central point in the child’s home. The distances will be measured using the borough’s computerised mapping system which is a Geographical Information System (shortest distance = highest priority).

Document text mixes 'catchment area' and 'attendance area' terminology (3.1.2 refers to catchment area, 3.4 refers to attendance area) but appears to describe the same ordered scheme. PAN of 60 applies to all year groups (Reception, KS1, KS2). CATCHMENT: Children who live in the school’s defined attendance area. Transcribed from the school's own determined admission arrangements as published by Telford & Wrekin Council determined admission arrangements. 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.