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Admissions

We have the capacity for 90 children in each year group

Should you require a place for your child (including in-year admissions), please contact the Peterborough Schools Admissions Team. 

You can find a copy of our Admissions Policy here: Admissions Policy

Telephone Admissions: (01733) 747474

Telephone School Place Adviser:   (01733) 747474 

Email:  admissions@peterborough.gov.uk 

Write to: 

Admissions 
Peterborough City Council 
Children’s Services 
Sand Martin House
Bitten Way
Fletton Quays
Peterborough
PE2 8TY

More information on admissions can be found on Peterborough City Council's website here.

Please remember to include your child’s name and date of birth in all communications.

School places are allocated on the following criteria;

Oversubscription Criteria

4.2     Over-Subscription Criteria for admission to Peterborough Community and Voluntary Controlled Primary and Infant Schools in 2026/2027

The Local Authority will admit children with an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or a statement of special educational needs which names a school. This will be in addition to any specific arrangements to specialist provision.

The order of priority for all other children is as follows:

  1. A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order. A looked after child 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. Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceases to be in state care as a result of being adopted;
  3. Children who are both living in the catchment area3 served by the school and have siblings4 of compulsory school age still attending the school at the time of their admission;
  4. Other children living in the catchment area at the time of admission;
  5. Children of members of staff, provided that they have been employed for a minimum of two years and/or are recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage;
  6. Children who do not live in the catchment area served by the school, but who have siblings of compulsory;
  7. For admission to Junior (KS2) schools only; children who are in attendance at an Infant school on the same site at the time of application, have been in attendance at the school for at least a term prior to application and remain there until the end of the summer term;
  8. Other children whose parents have requested a place who live outside the catchment area of the school.
  1. DEFINITIONS

5.1      The following definitions will apply to all community and voluntary controlled schools in Peterborough.

5.2     Distance is measured in a straight line using the Local Land Property Gazetteer

(LLPG) provided from the seed point located at the child's home address to the seed point for the school. The seed point is taken from the ordinance survey's (OS) Address-Base dataset. It is used to locate individual residential and school addresses using grid references as seed points.

It may be necessary to use other Ordnance Survey maps or online resources for any home address outside of the Peterborough local authority area not covered by the council’s distance measuring system.

In the case of flats, the priority is that of floor level i.e., ground, first, second etc., in that order.

In cases of exactly the same measurement where no differentiation can be established, a lottery will be used to decide the allocation of the place.

5.3     Home address – the address given on a child’s application should be the child’s permanent or main residence at the time school places are allocated. This should also be the address where the child will be residing when they start school in the September.  A child’s application can only be considered from one home address. Therefore, their “main residence” must be the address at which they spend the majority of their school nights, and will usually, therefore, be the address to which the child benefit is paid.  An address used for before and after-school childcare arrangements will not be considered appropriate.

5.4      Shared responsibility – where more than one adult shares parental responsibility and they live at different addresses, it is important that agreement is reached, prior to making the application, on which schools will be named on the application form.  If different applications are received, and day to day care is unable to be established the Admissions Team will place all applications on hold and will not process until such time that:

  • one joint application is made; or
  • where day to day care can be established; or
  • written agreement is provided from both parents; or
  • a court order is obtained confirming which parent’s application carries precedence.

5.5      Future House Moves - Places cannot be allocated based on an intended future change of address, unless the new address has been confirmed by exchange of contracts and with confirmation of a completion date, for a house purchase or the signing of a formal lease agreement.  Places cannot be allocated more than 6 teaching weeks before the child is expected to take up the place.

5.6      Moving House - If a family move address at any point during the admissions process, either within Peterborough or into Peterborough, it is their responsibility to immediately inform the Admissions Team, in writing, of this change, and provide proof of their new address. Failure to do this may invalidate a child’s application.

5.7      Parent - A person who is either the child’s birth or adoptive parent, has parental responsibility for the child or an adult who has delegated responsibility for the child, for which confirmation will be requested.

5.8      Siblings - children aged between 4 and 16, living together in the same family unit, who have a sibling on the roll of the school at the time of application and admission to the school.  Sibling includes:

  • brother, or sister;
  • half-brother, or sister;
  • adopted brother, or sister;
  • child of the parent/carer or their partner;
  • children looked after, or previously looked after.  This doesn't include children

 temporarily living in the same household - for example a looked after child in short-term, or interim, foster placement.

In every case, the sibling must be living permanently in the same family home (at least Monday to Friday) and must be on the roll of the school or have been offered and accepted a place at the school at the time of application and when the child starts".

5.9     Previously looked after children - a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence (now known as a child arrangement order), or special guardianship order, under Section 46 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Evidence must be provided on request to support this claim.

5.10   Members of Staff – a member of staff refers to a member of teaching staff employed by the school for either 2 or more years or who has filled a demonstrable skills shortage.

1.  A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit society

2.  as amended in S.14 of the Children and Families Act 2014

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