LEA Admissions Arrangements
Admission forms and information regarding the transfer from primary to secondary school is available in the Admission to Secondary School booklet 2006/2007. These forms must be returned by the advised date.

Admission forms and further information are also available from:
Education Services Admissions,
Telephone 01709 822552 or 01709 822626

Allocation of school places and notification to parents
From March, 2007 you will be offered a place at the secondary school of your choice if there is a place available or you be offered a place at an alternative school.

If you are satisfied with the place offered, you need take no further action. In time, the school named in this letter will contact you and inform you of the detailed arrangements for enrolment.
If you are not satisfied with this place offered, the letter sets out how you can appeal for a place at another school.

(Executive Director of Education, Culture and Leisure Services).
Consideration of parental preferences in the event of the number of places sought exceeding the number available, parents' preferences will be considered and allocated in the following order of priority:-

1. Children living in the catchment area of the school as defined by the authority

2. Those children who live outside the catchment area whose older brothers or sisters will be on the role of the preferred school at the time of their admission.

3. Children who have a specific medical reason confirmed by a medical practitioner which the authority is satisfied makes attendance at the particular school essential.

4. Children with a compelling social reason which the Authority is satisfied makes attendance at that particular school essential. The kinds of overriding social reasons which could be accepted are where there is evidence that the student's education would be seriously impaired if he or she did not attend the preferred school.

These criteria are applied equally to preferences whether they are from parents who live in Rotherham or in other Local Education Authorities.