Malmesbury Church of England 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. 1Children Looked After /Previously Children Looked After The definition of children looked after - a ‘child loo — Children Looked After /Previously Children Looked After The definition of children looked after - a ‘child looked after’ 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. A child looked after 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. 2Vulnerable Children This category includes children from families registered with the National Asylum Support — Vulnerable Children This category includes children from families registered with the National Asylum Support Service; children or families with a serious medical, physical or psychological condition where written evidence is provided at the time of application from a senior clinical medical officer, general practitioner or specialist showing that it would be detrimental to the child or family not to be admitted to the preferred school. For the purpose of the above criteria the word ‘families’ is determined as living at the same address at the time of the application and also living at the same address on a permanent basis. Proof will be required and must be submitted by the deadline date.
3. 3Siblings living within the inner or outer designated areas A child is considered under this category if a sibl — Siblings living within the inner or outer designated areas A child is considered under this category if a sibling is attending the school as at the deadline date and will continue to attend the school at the time of entry, and where the child lives within the outer designated area at the same address as the sibling. Step, half and foster siblings are included in this category.
4. 4Children of staff of the school living within the inner or outer designated areas A child is considered in thi — Children of staff of the school living within the inner or outer designated areas A child is considered in this category where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made and where the child lives within the outer designated area at the same address as the staff member.
5. 5Children within the inner designated area A child is considered in this category if they are resident within t — Children within the inner designated area A child is considered in this category if they are resident within the inner designated area and do not qualify under one of the criteria above. Should the school be oversubscribed when allocating places within this category, places will be allocated based on a random allocation (details below). Where the catchment boundary follows the middle of a road, children living in a property outside of the catchment but with frontage on to that section of road are included inside the designated area.
6. 6Children within outer designated area A child is considered in this category if they are resident within the o — Children within outer designated area A child is considered in this category if they are resident within the outer designated area and do not qualify under one of the criteria above.
7. 7Other siblings outside of both designated areas A child is considered under this category if a sibling is atte — Other siblings outside of both designated areas A child is considered under this category if a sibling is attending the school at the deadline date and will continue to attend the school at the time of entry, 31 and where the child lives at the same address as the sibling. Step, half and foster siblings are included in this category.
8. 8Other children outside of both designated areas A child is considered under this category if none of the above — Other children outside of both designated areas A child is considered under this category if none of the above criteria apply to them.

Printed by Wiltshire Council in the annual area insert for this part of the county, which reproduces each school's own oversubscription criteria under its entry. This school sets its own arrangements, so its full determined policy on the school's website is the authority for definitions and evidence. Several of the criteria turn on the school's CATCHMENT AREA, which Wiltshire publishes as a boundary and which is held on this school's page.

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.