The Piggott 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. 1Criterion A: Looked after / previously looked after children — All looked after children or children who were previously looked after, including those who appear to have been in state care outside England but ceased to be so as a result of being adopted. Applications under this criterion must be accompanied by evidence (e.g. a copy of the adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order).
2. 2Criterion B: Sibling in the designated area — Pupils whose permanent home address is in the school's designated area and who have a sibling living at the same address who already attends the school (in any Key Stage, i.e. EYFS2 (Reception year) - KS5) by the deadline for applications.
3. 3Criterion C: Children of staff — The children of staff at The Piggott School where that member of staff is the legal parent and guardian of that child, has a permanent contract to work at the school and has been employed at the school for 2 or more years at the time of application, or is recruited to fill a vacant post within a demonstrable skill shortage.
4. 4Criterion D: Designated area, no sibling — Pupils whose permanent home address is in the school's designated area but who do not fall into criterion B.
5. 5Criterion E: Outside the designated area, would-be sibling — Pupils whose permanent home address is not in the school's designated area but who would otherwise fall into criterion B.
6. 6Criterion F: Linked primary schools (secondary admissions only) — (Secondary admissions only) Pupils who attend one of the linked primary schools, who have not been admitted under an earlier criterion, namely The Colleton, Crazies Hill CE, Knowl Hill CE, St Nicholas CE and Sonning CE (Aided) primary schools, and Polehampton CE and Robert Piggott CE junior schools.
7. 7Criterion G: All other pupils — All other pupils.

If two applications tie: Within each criterion, applicants are ordered by the distance they live from the relevant school site (Charvil Piggott Primary School for Reception, Wargrave Piggott Secondary School for Year 7), measured as a straight line between Land Registry/Gazetteer address points for the home address and the school site, using Wokingham Borough Council's computerised mapping system, with those living closest given priority. If distances between two or more unconnected applications in the same criterion are identical, places are allocated by the drawing of lots, carried out by Wokingham Borough Council.

Children with a Statement of SEN/EHCP naming the relevant Piggott site are always admitted first (stated ahead of the lettered criteria, not itself numbered). Letters A-G are reconstructed from the document's own internal cross-references (e.g. "do not fall into criterion B", and Part 2's "those who are in criterion A, then... criterion B and so on") since the extracted text dropped the leading letter labels; the wording of each criterion is verbatim. The Piggott School (Agape Multi Academy Trust) is an all-through Church of England school for ages 4-18 (since September 2013), comprising Charvil Piggott Primary School (Reception-Y6) and Wargrave Piggott Secondary School (Y7-13); this document sets combined admission arrangements for both sites plus Sixth Form external entry. No faith-practice (e.g. church attendance) criterion is published; priority is by looked-after status, designated-area/sibling, staff, and linked schools only. Criterion F (linked primary schools) is explicitly marked "Secondary admissions only" and does not apply at Reception. Multiple-birth siblings are all admitted as an exception to the Infant Class Size rules, even above the admission number; this exception does not extend to same-school-year but non-multiple-birth children, for whom ties are decided by the drawing of lots.

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.