Silverstone UTC

When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (Year 10), 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 who are employed by Silverstone UTC (either full- or part-time) at the time of application provided that the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application to the school is made and/or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. The child does not have to live with the staff member permanently
3. 3Siblings of existing students at Silverstone UTC. A sibling is defined as a biological or legally adopted brother or sister residing in the same household. This is taken to include a stepbrother/sister, half-brother/sister, or child who is adopted or fostered, in all cases providing they are living at the same address. Cousins, nieces, nephews and unrelated children sharing an address with the applicant are not considered siblings. The older sibling must be continuing at the UTC at the time of admission of the younger sibling
4. 4Remaining places will be allocated by random allocation (independently verified) within each of the following ‘zones’ as follows: i. 70% of places will be allocated whereby priority is given to applicants whose home address is in the West Northamptonshire postcode areas of NN1 to NN7 and NN11 to NN13 ii. 20% of places will be allocated whereby priority is given to applicants whose home address falls in the postcode areas of MK1 to MK16 and MK18 to MK iii. 20% of places will be allocated to applicants whose home address is outside of the areas above • If places remain available from any of the zones above, these will be redistributed to those applicants from zones that are oversubscribed using random allocation • In the case where West Northamptonshire local authority area is one of the oversubscribed zones, a weighting of places will be applied before random allocation occurs. This will be two places for the West Northamptonshire zone to one place across all the other oversubscribed zones unless no other zones are oversubscribed in which case the West Northamptonshire local authority area will be allocated all remaining places. Random allocation of places will then take place separately across all other zones as a whole • In the instance where twins apply to join Silverstone UTC, if twin one is offered a space after applying our oversubscription criteria, the UTC will treat the application for twin two (as long as received on the same date and both twins live at the same home address) as equal and offer the second twin a space as well • Home address” is defined as the home address as registered with the Doctor Key Dates in the UTC application process for Year 10 places Stage in process Date Action Prepare Any time, but no more Read the information on our website carefully. than one year in Visit the UTC on open evenings and read our advance online prospectus. Apply - main application 1 September – 31 Submit your electronic application by midnight on window December of Year 9 the latter date for intake into the next academic year. Please note that there may be curriculum changes between your application and this date. Check the website for details. Main application window 22 January of Year 9 Offer letters emailed to parents/carers offers made You will need to confirm your acceptance by the date stated on your offer letter to ensure that your place is not reallocated to another applicant. Late application window 1 January to end of Applications received from 1 January of Year 9 academic Year 9 onwards will be dealt with as promptly as possible in batches up to the beginning of the next academic year. Late applicant offers made Monthly from 28 Offer letters will be sent to parents/carers on a February (29 in a leap monthly basis from the date stated. year) of Year 9 You will need to confirm your acceptance by the date stated on your offer letter to ensure that your place is not reallocated to another applicant. Deadlines are at midnight on the date shown as recorded on the website applications database. Where offer dates fall on non-working days, offers will be made on the next normal business day. Section 4 – Definitions and Glossary This section contains additional information that may help you to understand terminology used within this prospectus. WNC’s Definitions These are some of the most common definitions used by WNC in their admission arrangements. They may differ from those for individual schools who are their own admissions authority, i.e.: Academies, Free, Voluntary Aided and Foundation schools. See definitions under individual criteria in Section 3 for these schools. Looked After Children A ‘looked after child’ is a child who, at the time of making an application to a school, is:
5. 5In the care of a local authority, or
6. 6being provided with accommodation by a local authority in exercise of its social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) Previously Looked After Children Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they:
7. 7were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 (see Section 12 adoption orders) or the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (see Section 46 adoption orders), or
8. 8became subject to a child arrangements order (as defined in Section 8 of the Children Act 1989 and as amended by Section 12 of the Children and Families Act 2014), or
9. 9became subject to a special guardianship order (see Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 which defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). This includes 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 child is regarded as having been in state care outside of England if they were in the care of or were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation, or any other provider of care whose sole or main purpose is to benefit society.

If two applications tie: All admission arrangements must include an effective, clear and fair tie-breaker to decide between two applications that cannot otherwise be separated. Where two or more applications cannot otherwise be separated, random allocation will be usually be used to decide which applicant should be allocated a place. This process will be independently verified.

Important: The Local Authority does not co-ordinate applications for Silverstone UTC. All applicants will need to complete the UTC’s online application form and indicate which specialism is being applied for. Applications must be made directly to the UTC by the dates shown in the Key Dates table below. Applicants should state on their application whether their preference is to follow High Performance Engineering or Business & Technical Events Management. Silverstone UTC Academy will first admit pupils who have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan that names the school as appropriate provision. The oversubscription criteria will then be applied in the order below:

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.