Caroline Chisholm 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 children and all previously looked after children
2. 2Children of staff
3. 3Children with a sibling continuing at the school at the time of the admission of the child.
4. 4Children who live in the linked areas of Grange Park, Wootton, Wootton Fields, St George’s Fields, Courteenhall and Quinton associated with the school.
5. 5Other children Wootton, Wootton Fields and St George’s Field: Bounded by A45 to the west, B526 Newport Pagnell Road to the north, Wooldale Road to the south and the extent of the St George’s Field development to the east accessed via the B526 Newport Pagnell Road. Grange Park: The development to the east of Saxon Avenue, bounded by Saxon Avenue to the west, M1 to the south and Bridge Meadow Way, Little Field and Lark Lane to the north. The village of Quinton and the hamlet of Courteenhall lie to the south east and east respectively.

If two applications tie: If the admission number is exceeded within any criterion, priority will be given to those who live closest to the school. Distances are measured, using a geographical information system, on a straight-line basis from the child’s home address to the address point of the school using a geographical information system. Should two distances be the same, a process of random allocation using an online computerised randomiser will be used.

Places will be allocated to pupils who have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHC) that names the school as appropriate provision. Siblings A sibling is defined as a child’s brother or sister. A sibling must be living at the same permanent address and as part of the same family unit (one or two parents plus children) to qualify. This includes: • Brothers or sisters sharing the same parents. • Half-brothers or half-sisters, where two or more children share one common parent. • Stepbrothers or stepsisters, where two or more children are related by a parent’s marriage or partnership. (Partners must have lived together in a permanent exclusive relationship - as though they were husband or wife or civil partners - for at least two years.) • Children adopted to parents with other children. A student in the school will only count to provide a priority to a sibling if he or she is attending the school in Year Reception to Year 12 at the time the allocations are made and is still expected to be on the school’s roll at the time of the proposed admission. Children of staff For the purposes of the admissions criteria for Caroline Chisholm School, staff are defined as follows: • staff (both teaching and non-teaching, full-time and part-time) who have been directly employed by Caroline Chisholm School for two or more years at the time at which the application is made; and or employed to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. • members of staff on a temporary/fixed term contract providing the term of their contract fits the timescales above to qualify for staff status. For more information on the definition of staff child please refer to the school’s admission arrangements which can be viewed on their website.

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.