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Admissions

Before application all parents are given the opportunity to make an appointment to visit the School.
They will be welcomed and shown around by the Headteacher Mr P Rawlings, or the Deputy
Headteacher Mrs L Frost.

Admissions Policy

The admission limit in each year group at Netherbrook is 60 which takes the form of two classes of 30
pupils. Our Nursery has places for 78 pupils which is split into morning and afternoon sessions with a
maximum of 39 pupils in each session.

Places at the school will be allocated on the basis of the following criteria:

a) Relevant Looked After Children or children who were previously looked after but immediately
after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship
order.
b) Children who have a “serious and ongoing medical condition” where the school is the most
appropriate school to meet the condition. (Parents must provide supportive information from
their child’s hospital consultant at the time of application in order to be considered under this
criteria. This supportive information should include information about the needs of the child
and should detail the difficulties the child would experience if they attended another school.
Parents should also indicate why the school is the most appropriate to meet their child’s
medical condition rather than any other school.
c) Children who have a brother/sister, half-brother/sister (where the children share one common
parent) or step-brother/step-sister living at the same address and who will still be attending
the school in this academic year.
d) Any places that remain available once the above applicants have been admitted will be filled
according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a straight–line
measurement in metres, from the home address to the main entrance of the school.

If an offer of a place cannot be made, under the terms of the 1980 Education Act, an appeals procedure
has been set up to consider such cases. If this becomes necessary you should write to:

School Admissions Service
Directorate of Children’s Services
Westox House
1 Trinity Road
Dudley
DY1 1JQ

You should state clearly why you are appealing against the decision not to let your child into school
and you will be invited to attend a meeting of the Appeal Committee.