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Ada Lovelace CofE High School
Admissions criteria Waiting lists
Admissions criteria
The below criteria has been summarised, for the full
admissions policy and arrangements please visit the school
website: www.adalovelace.org.uk If Ada Lovelace Church of England High School cannot offer a
place you will be offered the opportunity of placing your child’s
name on the waiting list. This waiting list will be maintained by
the school strictly in the order of the oversubscription criteria
and not in the order in which the applications are received.
If a place becomes available, the child who is first on the
waiting list will be offered a place. Whenever a child joins the
waiting list the list will be reordered in accordance with the
oversubscription criteria above. The waiting list will run until
the end of the school year.
Planned admission number: 125 places
Where the number of applications is greater than the
planned admission number, applications will be considered
against the criteria set out below.
After the allocation of children with an EHC plan, the
admission criteria will be applied in the following order
of priority:
1. Children who are Looked After or Previously Looked
After and those who immediately after being looked
after became subject to adoption, a child arrangement
order, or special guardianship order.
2. Children with a sibling already on-roll at Ada Lovelace
CofE High School when they apply. A sibling relation
does not apply when the child currently on roll will leave
the school before the sibling starts.
3. 12 places for children showing an aptitude for
language. Places will be allocated in order of ranked
assessment score.
4. The remaining places will be allocated in accordance
with the Tie Breaker arrangements (see below).
Tie breaks
Distance will be used as the first ‘tie-breaker’ if two or
more applicants are equally qualified for a place within the
oversubscription criteria.
Distance is measured in a straight line from the unique
address point for the applicants’ home address to the nodal
point which is St Peter’s Church, Mount Park Road, Ealing
W5 2QS, using the Local Authority’s computerised mapping
system based on ordnance survey data.
In cases where applicants live equidistant from the school,
the available place will be allocated using a random
computer selection by Ealing Local Authority.
Multiple birth and same year siblings
In cases where only one place is available and twins or
multiple-birth children tie for the last available place, then
both or all will be offered even if this exceeds the planned
admission number.
Specialist language places
12 places within Ada Lovelace CofE High School will be
offered to students applying for a place in Year 7 with an
identified natural aptitude for language.
How to apply:
• Apply to Ada Lovelace CofE High School in accordance
with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated admission
arrangements using the Home Local Authority Common
Application Form.
• Download the Language Scholarship application form
from the school website and return the completed form
to the school by Friday 28 September at 12noon.
• All Language Scholarship applicants will be invited to
attend a language and linguistic aptitude assessment
on 1 October.
• Your child’s assessment score will be issued via email
together with their ranked position on the language
scholarship list. Whether your child is offered a place
will depend upon your ranked position for a language
scholarship place at the time of offers being made
as well as yours and others applications order of
preference on the Home Local Authority Common
Application Form.
• Students who are not offered a language scholarship
place in March will be placed on a language scholarship
waiting list, ranked according to their score. If a place
becomes available it will be offered to the applicant
who is highest on the waiting list. In the case of a
tie on score, those students living nearer the school,
measured in a straight line from a point in the property
of the child’s home address (including flats) to the main
entrance of the school, will be given priority.
For detailed information about the school and
to read their prospectus please visit the school
website: www.adalovelace.org.uk
Where one twin has an Education, Health and Care plan that
names the school, the other twin will be treated as having a
sibling link for that academic year.
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