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Matthew Arnold School - 2024/25 - Secondary
Transfer from Primary or Junior to Secondary School - September 2024 (places allocated on 1st March 2024) Admission Number : 210
Preferences
Total number of preferences for places 398
First Preferences requested 162
First Preferences offered (percentage offered) 162 offered (100%)
Second Preferences requested 75
Second Preferences considered (first preference not offered) 37
Second Preferences offered (percentage offered) 36 offered (97.3%)
Third Preferences requested 78
Third Preferences considered (first and second preferences not offered) 8
Third Preferences offered (percentage offered) 8 offered (100%)
Fourth Preferences requested 83
Fourth Preferences considered (higher preference not offered) 4
Fourth Preferences offered (percentage offered) 4 offered (100%)
Policy
The Governors or Trust decide the admissions criteria as shown below (in descending order of priority) together with the number of places offered under that criterion:
Places Offered
Criterion Number of Places
Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan that names the school 2
1. Children who are "looked after" by a Local Authority (LA) within the meaning of Section 22 of the Children Act 1989 at the time of their application, and "previously looked after" children and Children who were previously in state care outside England but have been adopted and are no longer in state care 3
2. Disabled children who need to be admitted on the grounds of physical accessibility 0
3. Children of Staff 2
4. Children who live in the designated area with a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 53
5. Children who live in the designated area who live closest 97
6. Children living outside the designated area who have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 12
7. Children who attend one of the following schools (Appleton C of E Primary School, Botley Primary School, Cumnor C of E Primary School, North Hinksey C of E Primary School, St Swithun's C of E Primary School, West Oxford Community Primary School) and live outside the designated area 10
8. Those children who live closest 31
Total 210
Last Place Offered
8. Those children who live closest 11.12 miles
Home to school distances measured using Straight Line Distance
Unsuccessful Applicants
Criterion Number of Places
8. Those children who live closest 1
Total not offered 1
Summary
Number of places available 0