County Council

Information Governance Team – Cumbria House – 117 Botchergate – Carlisle – CA1 1RD T: 01228 221234 – E: [email protected]

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23 March 2017 Your reference: Our reference: FOI 2017-0158

Dear

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - DISCLOSURE

The council has completed its search relating to your request for information about school admissions, which was received on 01 March 2017.

The council does hold information within the definition of your request.

Question 1 A list of all secondary, middle and upper schools in Cumbria and whether they were oversubscribed or not- oversubscribed on national offer day 2017 (1st March). Please include each school’s Unique Reference Number (URN), DFE code, or address/postcode to allow us to identify each relevant school without ambiguity. We define a school to be oversubscribed if, and only if, at least one on-time applicant was refused a place and the applicant did not receive an offer from any higher preference school. If there were no refusals to on-time applicants - even if the school was unable to accept one or more late applications, or admitted over its published admission number - then we do not consider this school to be oversubscribed. If you use a different definition of oversubscription, then please make this clear in the response. Question 2 The total number of places offered at each school.

Questions 3-5 apply to oversubscribed schools only:

Question 3 The number of on-time applicants refused a place who did not receive a place at any higher preference school. Question 4 The admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted. Question 5 The home-to-school distance of the last successful applicant, assuming distance was used to allocate this place.

Response Please see additional spreadsheet for this information. The above deadline dates are applicable to the transfer to secondary main intake process in Cumbria LA. <4 – we provide the response four or less where disclosure of the actual figure could lead to the identification of individuals.

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Serving the people of Cumbria cumbria.gov.uk Cumbria County Council

You are free to use any information supplied in this response for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes. The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a limitation or exception in copyright law, such as news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the information in analogue or digital form, including on the internet, will require the permission of the copyright owner. Where the copyright owner is the council you will need to make an application under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005.

For information where the copyright is owned by another person or organisation you must apply to the owner to obtain their permission.

If you are dissatisfied with the way the council has responded to your request you can request an Internal Review. If you would like to request a Review please contact the Information Governance Team using the details at the top of this letter.

Further information can be found on the council’s website: http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/council- democracy/accesstoinformation/internalreviewscomplaints.asp

Yours sincerely,

Duncan McQueen Senior Manager – Performance and Risk

Serving the people of Cumbria cumbria.gov.uk School name Status DfE Under/Over Subscribed

Appleby Grammar School Ac 5407 Not oversubscribed Beacon Hill Community School C 4001 Not oversubscribed Ac 5413 Oversubscribed

Cartmel Priory CE School Ac 5410 Not oversubscribed Central Ac 6906 Not oversubscribed Free 6025 Not oversubscribed Ac 4103 Not oversubscribed Ac 5405 Not oversubscribed C 4150 Not oversubscribed Ac 6908 Not oversubscribed C 4151 Not oversubscribed Ac 5414 Oversubscribed

Kirkbie Kendal School Ac 5400 Not oversubscribed Kirkby Stephen Grammar School Ac 5406 Not oversubscribed Lakes School, The C 4056 Not oversubscribed C 4204 Not oversubscribed Morton Academy Ac 6905 Not oversubscribed Nelson Thomlinson School, The C 4501 Not oversubscribed Netherhall School C 4104 Not oversubscribed Newman Catholic School VA 4630 Oversubscribed

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Ac 5401 Oversubscribed

Queen Elizabeth School Ac 5411 Oversubscribed , The Ac 5404 Not oversubscribed Samuel King's School F 4011 Not oversubscribed Ac 4060 Not oversubscribed Solway Community Technology College C 4008 Not oversubscribed St Benedict's Catholic High School VA 4622 Oversubscribed

St Bernard's Catholic High School VA 4634 Not oversubscribed St Joseph's Catholic High School VA 4810 Not oversubscribed Trinity School Ac 5402 Oversubscribed

Ullswater Community College F 4310 Oversubscribed

Ulverston Victoria High School C 4152 Not oversubscribed Ac 4003 Not oversubscribed Ac 6907 Oversubscribed

Whitehaven Academy, The Ac 4000 Not oversubscribed Ac 5412 Oversubscribed , The Ac 4007 Not oversubscribed Total number of Number of timely placed offered on 1 applicants refused a March place at any higher preference school 62 20 174 34

64 121 42 226 151 183 183 28 200 25

191 65 61 102 144 199 91 120 19

128 59

244 136 17 33 16 210 41

130 120 270 82

241 <4

217 95 210 42

121 271 <4 146 Admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted

Category 7 - Children living oustide the catchment area, giving priority for those children who live closest to the catchment area boundary, measured by a straight line on the map.

Category 6 - Out of catchment children on distance grounds using a straight line measurement from home to school.

Category 7 - all other children.

Pupils are selected on the basis of their aptitude for the academic nature of the eductaion offered at the school, such selection being by way of evidence of aptitude from the entrance test.

Category I - Children who are baptised in or are members of other Christian denominations, and which is supported by a certificate of Baptism and/or letter from their minister. If the number of applications in any of the categories A - K is above the number of places available, applications will be further ranked by measurement by reference to the following:- a) Children living nearest to the school as measured by the shortest walking route between home and school - as measured by the nearest walking route by road, using a published mapping system - the school will use the GIS system used by CCC. Category 8 - A child who lives outside the catchment area of the school, as defined by Cumbria County Council, based on closeness to the school (see note 2 below). Note 2 - closeness to the school will be used to place applicants in rank order if that is necessary. This means distance from the child's permanent address to the main entrance on Strand Road, constructed in 2011, measured in a straight line on a map.

Category 5 - Children living outside the atachment area giving priority to those who live closest to the school, measured by the shortest walking route by road.

Category (c) (2) - Young people living in the catchment area of the Academy. If more young people from within the catchment area apply than there are places avaiable, places will be allocated in the following order: 1 Young people who at the time of application have a brother or sister (including adopted siblings, step-siblings and those living as siblings in the same family unit) on the roll of West Lakes Academy and who will still be on roll at the time of the sibling's addmission. 2 To those who live nearest to the Academy measured by the shortest walking route by road using the Local Authority's Geographical Information System, from the front door of the Acadeemy to the centre of the child's home address.

Category 5 - Children living outside the catchment area of the school. Distance

Caldew School is an academy. The LA don't hold information about distance measurements. Please contact school for distance information, tel: 01228 710044.

26502 metres.

Newman School is a voluntary aided school. The LA don't hold information about distance measurements. Please contact school for distance information, tel: 01228 404942. Distance information not known. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is an academy. For further information about the allocatoion process, please contact school directly, tel: 01768 864621.

4053 meters. 505.2925 meters.

16328 meters.

10339.8503 meters.

12.2 miles.