Henry Hinde School

When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (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 — Children who, at the time of admission, are in care of a local authority or are provided with accommodation by the authority (looked after children). Also, children who were previously looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to child arrangements order or a special guardianship order and all previously looked after children, 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. A looked-after child is defined in Section 22 of the Children Act 1989.
2. 2Priority area sibling at academy in Year 1/Year 2 — Children living in the priority area who have a sibling at the academy in Year 1 and Year 2 at the time of admission;
3. 3Priority area sibling at Henry Hinde Junior School — Children living in the priority area who have a sibling at Henry Hinde Junior School at the time of admission;
4. 4Children living in the priority area — Children living in the priority area;
5. 5Children of permanent Trust staff (2+ years) — Children of a permanent member of staff at Transforming Lives Educational Trust who has been employed for a period of more than two academic years at the time when the application is made;
6. 6Outside priority area sibling at academy in Year 1/Year 2 — Children living outside the priority area who have a sibling at the school at the academy in Year 1 and Year 2 at the time of admission;
7. 7Outside priority area sibling at Henry Hinde Infant School — Children living outside the priority area who have a sibling at Henry Hinde Infant School at the time of admission;
8. 8Children living outside the priority area — Children living outside the priority area.

If two applications tie: Within all criteria, places will be offered in accordance with distance between the child's home address and the academy (shortest distance = highest priority), calculated by straight line measurement via GIS from address point to centroid of academy. Where distance is identical, priority is set by random allocation (lottery), carried out independently by Warwickshire Admissions Service.

Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan that names Henry Hinde Infant School will be offered a place first, before oversubscription criteria are applied, reducing the number of places available. Admission above PAN would breach infant class size limit of 30 pupils per teacher; excepted pupils listed include those with EHCP, looked after children, procedural error cases, appeal-upheld children, service personnel children, twins/multiples where one is the 30th child, and SEND unit children. Multiple births: if a multiple-birth child receives the 60th place, all children from that multiple birth residing at the household will be admitted over the PAN. CATCHMENT: Each school in Warwickshire has an area identified as its priority area. A small number of schools share priority areas; these are known as shared priority areas. Transcribed from the school's own determined admission arrangements as published by Warwickshire County Council school admissions directory. 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.