St Paul's Church of England Aided 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. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked After Children and all Previously Looked After Children. Children and young people in care are children who are in (a) the care of the local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of the social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time the application is made to the school. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order). This includes children who appear (to the admissions authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Siblings of children already attending the school — Children who are siblings of children already attending the school, at the time of admission. For admission purposes, a sibling is a child who resides at the same address as the child for whom a place is being requested, and is one of the following:- brother/sister, half-brother/sister (i.e. share one common parent), step brother/sister (i.e. related by a parent's marriage), any other child for whom it can be demonstrated that he/she is residing permanently at the same address as the outcome of a child arrangements order. Where there are more sibling applications than available places, priority will be given to siblings with strong supporting evidence under the Faith category.
3. 3Medical and social reasons — Medical and Social Children with medical or social reasons which make it preferable to attend this school rather than any other. Such requests must be supported by a report, obtained by the parents/carers from an appropriate professional source justifying the grounds for such an application.
4. 4Faith reasons (graded A-C) — Those showing strength of support from the appropriate faith leader, demonstrating commitment to the life, work and witness of their faith. This will be measured by: number of years a family has been worshipping, frequency of visits to the place of worship, frequency of involvement in religious activities related to a faith community. Supplementary applications forms will be graded from A to C by the Admissions Committee with applications graded as A ranked above those ranked as B. Applications ranked as C will be ranked within category 6. A – SIF demonstrates the parent/carer's membership and commitment to the congregation of St Paul's Church, Pendeford. (regardless of home address.) B – SIF demonstrates support from the parent/carers faith leader which demonstrates parent/carer's commitment to the life, work and witness of their particular faith*. *This reason will only be taken into consideration if the preferred school is the nearest Church of England school to the child's home address (measured by a straight line from the home address to the school using the City of Wolverhampton Council's software). C – No evidence / incomplete form – these applications will be ranked within category 6.
5. 5Children of staff members employed at the school — Children whose parent/carer is a member of staff employed at the school. This applies where the parent/carer has been employed by the school for two or more years at the time at which the application of admission to the school is made, and/or where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage. This criterion applies to all permanent staff members, and excludes staff employed on a casual/temporary contract.
6. 6Children who live closest to the school — Children who Live Closest to Our School

A child with an EHCP naming the school will be admitted, prior to application of oversubscription criteria. Waiting lists maintained until 31st December, ranked in admission criteria order. Separate Nursery admission criteria exist but are distinct from main school Reception admissions. Transcribed from the school's own determined admission arrangements as published by City of Wolverhampton Council. 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.