School Admissions Forum

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SCHOOL ADMISSIONS FORUM

Date and Time: Thursday 23 February 2012 6.00 pm

Venue : Room 101, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, SW2 1RW

Democratic Services Officer : Jacqueline Davy Governance and Democracy Tel/Voicemail: 020 7926 2167 London Borough of Lambeth, Fax: 020 7926 2361 Town Hall, Email: [email protected] Brixton Hill, Website: www.lambeth.gov.uk London, SW2 1RW

Despatched: Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Enquiries about the contents of reports:

Peter Scott, Head of Service, School Admissions, Children & Young People’s Department, International House, Canterbury Crescent, SW9 7QE Tel: 020 7926 1469 Email [email protected]

Membership Please note that for the meeting to proceed a quorum of seven members from any group is required.

Community Schools Mr. Jeremy Baker, Mr. Brian Hazell, Ms. Rosemary Newlove and Mr. Mike Richardson. (1 vacancy)

Voluntary Controlled Schools Mr. Sandy Nuttgens

Voluntary Aided Schools Mr. Louis Desa, Mr. Colin Edwards and (Vacancy)

Foundation Schools Ms. Linda Adams

Academies Mr. Peter Walker

Religion/Religious Denomination Dr. Carol Jerwood Keith Burleton Vacancy (Muslim)

Parents Ms Cathy Harvey and Ms. Samantha Toussaint (1 vacancy)

Community Councillors Pete Robbins and John Whelan. Vacancy (Early Years Community).

TERMS OF REFERENCE

1. The role of the Forum is to consider and advise on the fairness of admission arrangements for schools in the relevant area, and in particular:

(a) the extent to which the current admission arrangements in the relevant area serve the interests of looked after children, children with disabilities and children with special educational needs; (b) the effectiveness of any fair access protocol in place in the relevant area; (c) the effectiveness of any scheme for co-ordinating admission arrangements made or adopted in the relevant area and, where relevant, any adjoining local authority area; and (d) details of any other matters which affect the fair operation of admission arrangements for relevant schools in the relevant area. 2 A forum must— (a) advise the authority and the governing bodies of all voluntary aided and foundation schools in the area by 30 th November each year which persons or bodies in the area the forum considers have an interest in proposed admission arrangements for the purposes of regulation 12(2)(h) of the Admission Arrangements Regulations; (b) consider and advise on any proposed qualifying scheme for the co-ordination of admission arrangements referred to it by the authority pursuant to regulation 5 of the School Admissions (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2008; (c) consider admission arrangements referred to it under regulation 12(2)(f) of the Admission Arrangements Regulations for the purposes of consultation and must consider whether to exercise its power to refer an objection to any such arrangements to the adjudicator pursuant to section 88H(2); (d) consider any composite prospectus published by the authority and advise the authority on whether this might be improved to raise the standard of information provided to parents; and (e) consider whether to produce a report for the purposes of section 85A(1A)

AGENDA

Appendices to reports- bulky appendices are published on the Website www.lambeth.gov.uk and can be obtained from report authors or at the meeting. They are not circulated with the agenda.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ORDER OF THE AGENDA MAY BE CHANGED AT THE MEETING

Page Nos. 1. Declarations of Interest

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting 1 - 6

3. Update on School Admissions Code and Appeals Code 7 - 12

Contact: Peter Scott, Head of Service, School Admissions 020 7926 1469 [email protected]

4. Update on Primary and Secondary Coordinated 13 - 28 Admissions

Contact: Peter Scott, Head of Service, School Admissions 020 7926 1469 [email protected]

5. Bespoke arrangements for The Norwood School and Lilian 29 - 36 Baylis Technology School

Contact: Peter Scott, Head of Service, School Admissions 020 7926 1469 [email protected]

6. Any Other Business

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School Admissions Forum 23 February 2012

Update on School Admissions Code and Appeals Code

(All Wards)

Report authorised by : Executive Director, Children and Young People’s Service: Debbie Jones

Executive summary

The new School Admissions Codes came into force on the 1 February 2012. All statutory elements must be complied with immediately, though there are some aspects of the Code, which will not come into practice until 2013.

Summary of financial implications

There are no implications which immediately impact on LA finances.

Recommendations (1) That agreement is reached to whether this LA prioritises staff children or not to Lambeth community/voluntary-controlled schools and if so how that could be reflected practically in the admission arrangements.

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Consultation

Name of Department or Organisation Date sent Date Comments consultee response appear in report received para:

Internal Mike Pocock Divisional Director, EECP 10.02.12 Maggie Harriott Education Strategy Manager, 10.02.12 EECP Pete Robbins Cabinet Member for CYPS 10.02.12 14.02.12

Report history

Date report drafted: Report deadline: Date report sent: Report no.: 09.02.12 08.02.12 10.02.12 N/A Report author and contact for queries: Peter Scott, Head of Service, School Admissions 020 7926 1469 [email protected]

Background documents

N/A

Appendices

N/A

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Update on School Admissions Code and Appeals Code

1. Context

1.1 The revised School Admissions Code and School Admission Appeals Code came into force on 1 February.

1.2 The School Admissions Code takes full effect on admissions arrangements being locally determined in respect of the pupil intake for the 2013/14 academic year and thereafter. However, for appeals lodged on or after 1 February 2012, these will be dealt with under the Appeals Regulations 2012 and the School Admission Appeals Code.

1.3 The Codes and supporting regulations are available to download from http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/schooladmissions/a00195/current -codes-and-regulations .

The School Admissions Code - Main changes

• Increase in school PANs – A variation to increase a school’s PAN is not required to be referred to the Schools Adjudicators but admission authority schools must consult with governing bodies and must notify the LA of this. They are also allowed to admit above their pan in-year (sec 1.5 of the Code).

• Section 1.32 (c) - Schools which band, or use any form of selection tests, must take reasonable steps to inform parents of the outcome of the test before the closing date (31 October). This could be seen as unfair by families who are applying for places at non-testing schools as they will be applying ‘blindly’ whereas other parents could, fairly accurately, determine whether they would/would not get a place at the testing school and decide where to apply with pre-informed knowledge. This could put pressure on schools (by parents) to have a banding test.

• In-year - There is no requirement for local authorities to co-ordinate in-year applications for the offer year 2013/14 and all subsequent years, but they must:

1. Provide in the composite prospectus how in-year applications can be made and will be dealt with.

2. Local authorities must, on request, provide information to a parent about the places still available in all schools within its area,

3. LAs must also provide a suitable form for parents to complete when applying for a place for their child at any school for which they are not the admission authority.

4. Any parent can apply for a place for their child at any time to any school outside the normal admissions round.

5. Own admission authority schools must , on receipt of an in-year application, notify the local authority of both the application and its

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outcome, to allow the local authority to keep up to date figures on the availability of places in the area.

6. The admission authority must also inform parents of their right to appeal against the refusal of a place.

7. Admission authorities must inform LAs of vacancies in their school so they can inform parents

Much of the above seems to still require LAs to do some coordination but only allows admissions authority schools to make offers directly. This LA will need to formulate an in-year process that allows the above to happen. However, the above does not differ much from the current In-Year Transfer and Direct Offer By Schools process the LA currently administers.

• Give priority to children of school staff when a school is over-subscribed, if the school wishes, making it easier for schools to recruit teachers and other staff – This is an extremely unpopular allowance and LAs are actively discouraging schools from choosing this as a viable initiative. This could potentially cause problems (across London) as this criterion could impact offers for local children. However, Lambeth LA could implement this as part of the work done by the MEDSOC Panel.

• Strengthen the military covenant by allowing children of armed forces personnel to be admitted to infant classes even if it takes the class over the 30-pupil limit. – This is part of the allowance for schools to go over their PAN even if it means they exceed this in infant classes.

• Allow twins and other multiple-birth children to be admitted to infant classes even if it takes the class over the 30-child limit – Very similar to the above point. However, admissions authorities can also admit children into KS1 above their PAN who were originally offered a place via a mistake by either an LA or by admissions authority school themselves.

• Ban local authorities from using area-wide “lotteries” – though individual schools can admit children via the lottery system. London Nautical currently does this.

• Reduce bureaucracy by requiring admissions authorities to consult on admissions arrangements every seven years (rather than every three years) if no changes are proposed. (They would still need to consult when they wanted to change their admissions arrangements). – We presume the seven years start now, but this does not necessarily reduce bureaucracy for the maintaining LAs. They will need to have some system of recording which schools have not consulted within a seven year period. Schools can easily ‘slip through the net’ regarding this.

• Free Schools and Academies may, where their Funding Agreements permit, give priority in admission arrangements to children eligible for Free School Meals (in future, the Pupil Premium). – This is seen as grossly unfair by some schools as this is included in the Code as small print in a footer. The appendix to the Code points out that schools need to be aware of their obligations under equalities legislation. They must not discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and disability and must consider how they can “advance equality of opportunity”. It could be seen that equality is now difficult to maintain as the evidence needed to decide who gets this priority will need to take into account parents financial

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income, ethnicity details are recorded and a number of other personal parental data can be requested, all of which undermine the prohibitions set out in section 2.4(a). • Children looked after still need to be given priority, as do - children who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption , residence, or special guardianship order . Therefore, if a child was previously looked after and adopted at 6 months old and 11 years down the line, needs to transfer to a secondary school they must receive top priority. This will automatically be a part of all admission authority criteria and does not need to be consulted on, simply implemented.

The School Admissions Appeals Code - Main changes

• Parents will have at least 30 days to lodge an appeal against primary or secondary school decisions. The current 10-day limit forces parents to appeal quickly. - The DfE claim that “the current 10-day limit forces parents to appeal quickly. In the 2008/09 school year for which figures are available, more than a quarter of all appeals lodged (24,550 out of 88,270) were not taken forward, wasting time and money.”

• The rule that currently bans appeals from being heard on school premises will be overturned. – This is a cost effective initiative, which supports admission authorities

• The regulation for admission authorities to advertise for lay appeal members every three years will be cut.

• In future anyone will be able to object to the Adjudicator. The draft code is also clear that local authorities will retain the power to refer any admissions arrangements they believe are not complying with the code to the Schools Adjudicator. The Adjudicator is encouraging this by proposing to make this a part of the OSA Report. Complaints about Academies and Free Schools will no longer be handled by the DfE but by the OSA.

2. Proposals and reasons

2.1 It is proposed that if the LA deems it fitting to prioritise staff children that this be done via the MEDSOC Panel.

2.2 Reasons for the aforementioned recommendation are:

• Prioritising such children could further impact the placing of children into local schools

• Popular schools may be able to attract teachers much more easily than unpopular schools

• As the admissions process is Pan-London, then any impact on children could cross borders and cause issues with neighbouring LAs.

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3. Results of consultation

3.1 Other LAs would like us to follow suit with their initiative and encourage schools to not have this element in their arrangements.

4. Timetable for implementation

4.1 Any agreement would need to be made before the 1 March 2012 and determined by the 15 April.

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School Admissions Forum 23 February 2012

Update on Primary and Secondary Coordinated Admissions

All Wards

Report authorised by : Executive Director, Children and Young People’s Service: Debbie Jones

Executive summary

The chart below simply identifies how many applications have been received to date to our Lambeth schools:

Summary of financial implications

None

Recommendations (1) None (for information only)

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Consultation

Name of Department or Organisation Date sent Date Comments consultee response appear in report received para:

Internal Mike Pocock Divisional Director, EECP 10.02.12 Maggie Harriott Education Strategy Manager, 10.02.12 EECP Pete Robbins Cabinet Member for CYPS 10.02.12 14.02.12

Report history

Background documents

N/A.

Appendices

N/A

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Update on Primary and Secondary Coordinated Admissions

1. Context

1.1 This report will provide an update on

• Secondary Transfer 2012

• Primary Admissions 2012

2. Proposals and reasons

SECONDARY TRANSFER 2012

2.1 The following table highlights the number of on-time applications Lambeth LA has received. The 2012 data is compared with 2011

Table 1 2011 ontime preference numbers for Lambeth schools Places Preferred school available FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH TOTAL Archbishop Tenison's School 92 50 58 66 42 28 27 271 Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School 180 229 174 186 155 107 54 905 Charles Edward Brooke Church of England Girls' School 90 9 20 23 23 25 9 109 Dunraven School 192 335 370 315 270 151 90 1531 Evelyn Grace Academy 180 185 131 107 115 56 49 643 La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School 150 110 127 116 72 45 35 505 Lambeth Academy 180 92 142 150 112 69 52 617 Lilian Baylis Technology School 124 106 88 86 71 60 41 452 St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls 140 98 89 87 74 42 35 425 Stockwell Park High School 210 110 117 108 89 60 39 523 The Elmgreen School 180 140 173 149 140 109 69 780 The London Nautical School 120 148 110 106 82 60 30 536 The Norwood School 150 56 78 93 88 58 47 420 TOTALS 1988 1668 1677 1592 1333 870 577 7717

2012 ontime preference numbers for Lambeth schools Places Pref. Estab. available FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH TOTAL Archbishop Tenison's School 92 46 43 54 45 16 19 223 Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School 180 233 196 182 133 87 52 883 Charles Edward Brooke Church of England Girls' School (St Gabriel’s College) 120 29 23 36 37 27 17 169

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Dunraven School 192 323 365 329 214 128 86 1445 Evelyn Grace Academy 180 162 105 113 87 63 40 570 La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School 150 114 108 85 84 38 16 445 Lambeth Academy 180 87 134 133 103 81 55 593 Lilian Baylis Technology School 124 96 76 88 88 52 36 436 St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls 140 71 93 87 61 54 26 392 Stockwell Park High School 210 124 94 94 84 47 37 480 The Elmgreen School 180 150 202 182 107 82 68 791 The London Nautical School 120 128 94 74 65 35 20 416 The Norwood School 150 52 72 92 80 70 57 423 Grand Total 2018 1615 1605 1549 1188 780 529 7266

Please note:

• There is an increase in the number of secondary places available in Lambeth for 2012, due to the changes at St Gabriel’s College (CEB).

• Most schools have received a lower number of on-time applications compared to last year. The most significant is The London Nautical, who has received 120 less applications than last year. This could be due to alternative/additional out-borough opportunities, or the reflection of more realistic parental preferences. However, this school, as are all our secondary schools, are still oversubscribed at the point of receipt of applications. The reduction in receipt of preferences for London Nautical should not have too much of a negative impact as the school normally admits only 30-37% of their places to Lambeth residents.

• 11 out of the 13 schools are oversubscribed with first and second preferences alone. This still indicates the popularity of Lambeth secondary schools.

• St Gabriel’s College (CEB) has received a higher number of applications this year than last. This 35% increase is fairly significant. 126 of these applicants in the 2012 round are female. The remaining 43 are boys. If the school becomes undersubscribed at the point of iteration, then the vacancies would largely be filled by boys as this represents the cohort of children without an offer.

2.2 Table 2 identifies the criteria parents want their child’s application to be considered under. However, it is important to note that the information below will change significantly, as admission authorities decide whether places will be offered on medical/social grounds and they will also confirm if children do have siblings on roll. This data will change significantly after National Offer Day (NOD, which is the 1 March 2012)

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Table 2 - 2012 Grand Pref. Estab. DIST LAC MEDSOC SIBL Total Archbishop Tenison's School 201 4 4 14 223 Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School 794 3 21 65 883 Charles Edward Brooke Church of England Girls' School 156 2 3 8 169 Dunraven School 1319 7 43 76 1445 Evelyn Grace Academy 514 4 11 41 570 La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School 399 3 6 37 445 Lambeth Academy 538 6 10 39 593 Lilian Baylis Technology School 383 1 7 45 436 St Martin -in -the -Fields High School for Girls 358 4 9 21 392 Stockwell Park High School 412 2 6 60 480 The Elmgreen School 705 4 26 56 791 The London Nautical School 382 2 14 18 416 The Norwood School 381 2 11 29 423 Grand Total 6542 44 171 509 7266

Please note:

• There will be little comfort to many families as a result of the reduced numbers of people applying to schools such as Dunraven. This year they have 76 siblings applying for a place there. This represents 40% of their total available places. If all these children are confirmed as siblings, they will certainly be offered a place, leaving only 116 places available for those children applying on the grounds of distance via banding. Only 1 in 12 children would receive an offer.

• The Elmgreen receives the second highest number of medical/social applications in the borough.

2.3 Table 3 indentifies a breakdown in applications made to Lambeth schools, and schools in other LAs by Lambeth and other LA residents:

Table 3 - 2012 Lambeth Other LA Grand Pref. Estab. residents residents Total Archbishop Tenison's School 153 70 223 Archbishop Tenison's School CofE High School 8 0 8 Ashcroft Technology Academy 63 0 63 Bacon's College 11 0 11 Battersea Park School 38 0 38 Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate Boy's School 1 0 1

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Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate Girl's School 1 0 1 Bishop Justus Church of England School 1 0 1 Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School 493 390 883 Bishopsford Arts College 10 0 10 Bolingbroke Academy 45 0 45 Brockhill Park School 1 0 1 Burntwood School 113 0 113 Carshalton High School for Boys 6 0 6 Carshalton High School for Girls 2 0 2 Cheam High School 1 0 1 Chelsea Academy 16 0 16 Chesham High School 1 0 1 Chestnut Grove School 250 0 250 Chiswick Community School 1 0 1 Coloma Convent Girls' School 38 0 38 Conisborough College 1 0 1 Coombe Boys School 2 0 2 Coombe Girls' School 2 0 2 Dartford Grammar School for Girls 1 0 1 De Stafford College of Technology & the Arts 1 0 1 Deptford Green School 1 0 1 Dunraven School 1164 281 1445 Edenham High School 2 0 2 Elliott School 8 0 8 Epsom and Ewell High School 1 0 1 Ernest Bevin College 79 0 79 Evelyn Grace Academy 532 38 570 Forest Hill School 6 0 6 Fulham Cross Secondary School 1 0 1 Glenthorne High School 3 0 3 Graveney School 408 0 408 Greenshaw High School 6 0 6 Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College 27 0 27 Haberdashers' Aske's Knight Academy 3 0 3 Hammersmith Academy 1 0 1 Harris Academy at Beckenham 4 0 4 Harris Academy Bermondsey 11 0 11 Harris Academy Bromley 2 0 2 Harris Academy Purley 8 0 8 Harris Academy South Norwood 90 0 90 Harris Boy's Academy East Dulwich 25 0 25 Harris City Academy Crystal Palace 286 0 286 Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich 26 0 26 Henry Compton Secondary School 1 0 1 Highworth Grammar School for Girls 1 0 1 Holland Park School 6 0 6 Hurlingham and Chelsea Secondary School 5 0 5

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John Paul II School 1 0 1 King Solomon Academy 3 0 3 Kingsdale Foundation School 376 0 376 La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School 280 165 445 Lady Margaret School 6 0 6 Lambeth Academy 550 43 593 Langley Park School for Boys 1 0 1 Lilian Baylis Technology School 391 45 436 Newstead Wood School for Girls 3 0 3 Nonsuch High School for Girls 8 0 8 Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls 69 0 69 Northbrook Church of England School 1 0 1 Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School 84 0 84 Oasis Academy Coulsdon 1 0 1 Paddington Academy 4 0 4 Pimlico Academy 254 0 254 Prendergast - Ladywell Fields College 2 0 2 Prendergast - Vale College 1 0 1 Prendergast-Hilly Fields College 4 0 4 Quintin Kynaston School 3 0 3 Ravens Wood School 1 0 1 Raynes Park High School 3 0 3 Ricards Lodge High School 8 0 8 Richmond Park Academy 1 0 1 Royal Alexandra and Albert School 1 0 1 Rutlish School 5 0 5 Sacred Heart High School 14 0 14 Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Secondary School 161 0 161 St Gabriel’s College 118 51 169 Saint John Bosco College 36 0 36 Saint Thomas More RC School 87 0 87

Sedgehill School 1 0 1 Shirley High School and Performing Arts College 3 0 3 Southfields Community College 18 0 18 St Andrew's CE School 3 0 3 St Augustine's CofE Secondary School 3 0 3

St Bede's School 1 0 1 St Cecilia's, Wandsworth Church of England School 26 0 26 St George RC School 2 0 2 St Joseph's College 150 0 150

St Mark's Church of England Academy 34 0 34 St Martin -in -the -Fields High School for Girls 323 69 392 St Mary's High School 4 0 4 St Michael's RC School 29 0 29

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St Olave's School 15 0 15

St Philomena's School 39 0 39 St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School 50 0 50 St Ursula's Convent School 2 0 2 Stockwell Park High School 452 28 480 Streatham and Clapham High School 1 1 Sutton Grammar School for Boys 51 0 51 Sydenham School 20 0 20

The Archbishop Lanfranc School 3 0 3 The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School 25 0 25 The Charter Academy 258 0 258 The City of London Academy 16 0 16 The Elmgreen School 698 93 791 The Globe Academy 24 0 24 The Grey Coat Hospital 189 0 189 The Harris Academy at Peckham 5 0 5 The Harris Academy Merton 83 0 83 The Henrietta Barnett School 2 0 2 The Holy Cross School 2 0 2 The John Fisher School 14 0 14 The King's School 1 0 1 The London Nautical School 168 248 416 The London Oratory School 42 0 42 The Norwood School 349 74 423 The Ravensbourne School 1 0 1 The Royal Grammar School 1 0 1 The St Marylebone School 31 0 31 The St Thomas the Apostle College 5 0 5 The Tiffin Girls' School 25 0 25 The UCL Academy 2 0 2 Thomas More School 1 0 1 Tiffin School 13 0 13 Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls 1 0 1 Ursuline High School Wimbledon 54 0 54 Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School 75 0 75 Wallington Grammar School 13 0 13 Wallington High School for Girls 25 0 25 Walworth Academy 31 0 31 Warlingham School 1 0 1 Westminster Academy 9 0 9 Westminster City Boy's School 50 0 50 Westwood Girls' College for Language and Arts 21 0 21 Wilson's School 17 0 17 Wimbledon College 38 0 38 Woodcote High School 1 0 1 Grand Total 9964 1596 11560

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1. PRIMARY ADMISSIONS 2012

• The statutory deadline for receiving all on-time applications for children due to start reception in September 2012 was Sunday 15 January 2012, at which point Lambeth LA received 3099 on-time applications.

• 1875 are online applications (60%) and the rest is paper applications. Comparison data is as follows:

APPLICATIONS (CAFs) 2011 2012

Total Paper CAFs 1583 1223 Total On-line CAFs 1391 1875 TOTALS 2974 3098

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• Please note, Lambeth Admissions are going through the double checking procedures at present and there maybe some duplicate CAFs (i.e CAFs from people who have submitted both a paper and an online form). Though these numbers should be small, there maybe a change in some totals for 2012 applications.

• The following schools were applied to ( by Lambeth families only. This data will increase once we interact with the Pan-London Register and receive out-of borough preferences on the 8 February 2012):

Places Grand Pref. Estab. available 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Total Ab Kettleby Community Primary School 1 1 Alderbrook Primary School 2 1 4 7 2 3 19 All Saints CofE Aided Infant School 1 1 All Saints' CofE Primary School 1 1 All Saints Infant School 2 1 3 1 1 8 Allen Edwards Primary School 53 30 28 24 11 7 153 Allfarthing Primary School 1 1 2

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Archbishop Sumner Church of England Primary School 60 45 28 13 9 6 3 104 Ark Oval Primary 2 2 Ashburnham Primary School 1 1 Ashmole Primary School 30 18 24 21 8 11 3 85 Balgowan Primary School 1 1 Beatrix Potter Primary School 1 1 Beecholme First School 1 1 Bellenden Primary School 1 1 Belleville Primary School 1 8 9 4 4 1 27 Bessemer Grange Primary School 6 3 7 3 3 4 26 Beulah Nursery Infant School 1 1 2 1 1 6 Bickley Primary 1 1 Bishop Gilpin CofE First School 1 1 Bonneville Primary School 60 32 26 34 33 10 8 143 Bonnygate Primary School 1 1 Bousfield Primary School 1 1 Brixton -Christ Church Brixton Church of England Primary School 60 14 24 10 11 8 5 72 Broadmead Primary School 1 1 Broadwater Primary School 1 1 2 Brunswick Park Primary School 1 1 1 3 Burdett Coutts and Townshend Foundation CofE Primary School 1 2 1 2 6 Busbridge Infant School 1 1 Charles Dickens Primary School 3 5 8 3 1 20 Charlotte Sharman Primary School 6 1 3 1 1 12 Chesterton Primary School 2 1 3 Christ Church CofE Primary School 1 1 2 Churchill Gardens Primary School 2 2 Clapham Manor Primary School 60 90 89 50 30 12 12 283 Cobourg Primary School 1 1 Colville Primary School 1 1 Comber Grove Primary School 1 4 2 1 1 9 Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School 52 90 68 35 19 9 6 227 Crampton School 2 2 3 1 8 Cranmer Primary School 1 1 Crawford Primary School 11 3 1 3 2 2 22 Crown Lane Primary School 60 46 23 21 30 21 15 156 Cypress Infant School 1 1 2 4 David Livingstone Primary School 1 1 1 3 Davidson Primary School 1 1 2 Dilkes Primary School 1 1 Dog Kennel Hill School 1 3 1 2 3 1 11 Downsview Primary School 2 1 2 3 1 9 Dulwich Hamlet Junior School 1 1 2

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Dulwich Village Church of England Infants' School 14 34 13 6 9 6 82 Bexley School 1 1 1 Bexley School 2 1 1 Bexley School 3 1 1 Bromley School 1 3 3 Bromley School 2 1 1 Bromley School 3 1 1 Bromley School 4 1 1 Bromley School 5 2 1 3 Kingston-Upon-Thames 1 1 Outer London LA 1 1 Outer London LA 1 1 Durand Academy 125 127 57 45 29 18 11 287 Eardley School 12 6 6 5 2 2 33 Eliot Bank Primary School 1 2 3 Elm Wood Primary School 60 77 111 75 27 19 18 327 Elmwood Infant School 1 1 English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School 1 1 Fairchildes Primary School 1 1 Fairlawn Primary School 1 1 Fenstanton Primary School 90 34 16 17 12 17 5 101 Fircroft Primary School 1 1 Freshfield Primary School 1 1 Friars Primary School 4 5 3 5 1 18 Furzedown Primary School 2 2 2 2 8 Garden Primary School 1 2 2 5 Gatton Primary 5 2 4 2 1 14 Glenbrook Primary School 60 21 17 16 15 12 10 91 Gonville Primary School 1 2 1 4 Goodrich School 2 2 4 Goose Green Primary School 3 2 4 9 Grange School 1 1 Granton Primary School 57 32 26 28 13 11 6 116 Groombridge St Thomas' Church of England Primary School 1 1 Hallfield Primary School 1 1 Hampden Gurney CofE Primary School 1 1 Heathbrook Primary School 60 39 30 30 12 7 4 122 Heber Primary School 4 1 1 6 Henry Cavendish Primary School (Balham site) 60 64 43 27 14 13 5 166 Henry Cavendish Primary School (Streatham site) 60 50 39 35 27 13 10 174 Henry Fawcett Primary School 60 24 16 14 11 6 5 76 Herbert Morrison Primary School 28 27 17 13 10 4 6 77 Hill Mead Primary School 60 43 13 13 16 18 10 113 Hillbrook School 4 1 2 1 1 9 Hitherfield Primary School 85 68 53 43 41 24 16 245 Holy Ghost RC Primary School 2 1 2 1 6 Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School 1 1

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Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School 60 44 33 22 13 17 10 139 Holy Trinity CofE Primary School 2 1 3 Honeywell Infant School 7 5 3 10 7 1 33 Horniman Primary School 1 1 2 Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School 60 49 44 30 12 9 5 149 Iqra Primary School 30 27 35 19 5 5 3 94 Ivydale Primary School 1 1 James Dixon Primary School 1 1 2 Jessop Primary School 60 22 21 16 21 17 12 109 Johanna Primary Oasis Waterloo Academy 30 31 10 6 12 4 3 66 John Burns Primary School 3 1 1 6 1 12 John Donne Primary School 1 1 John Ruskin Primary School 2 3 1 1 1 8 Jubilee Primary School 60 42 31 30 40 16 23 182 Julian's Primary School (Streatham site) 30 60 54 48 41 26 15 244 Julian's Primary School (West Norwood site) 60 20 44 33 18 10 9 134 Kelvin Grove Primary School 1 1 Kensington Avenue Primary School 2 1 1 1 1 6 Keyworth Primary School 1 1 1 1 4 King Athelstan Primary School 1 1 Kings Avenue Primary School 60 39 46 43 34 21 28 211 Kingswood Primary School 120 119 96 67 41 17 12 352 Langbourne Primary School 1 1 1 3 1 7 Lark Hall Primary School 60 32 12 14 6 8 6 78 Liberty School 1 1 1 3 Lonesome Primary School 2 2 5 9 Loughborough Primary School 60 34 28 17 17 8 7 111 Lyndhurst Primary School 8 4 2 2 4 1 21 Macaulay Church of England Primary School 30 26 21 14 7 6 6 80 Maple Infants' School 1 1 Marlborough Primary School 1 1 Merton Abbey First School 1 1 Michael Faraday School 1 1 Millbank Primary School 6 3 4 1 4 2 20 Norbury Manor Primary School 3 2 2 4 3 1 15 Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 1 1 2 Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School 1 1 2 Orchard Primary School 25 43 23 12 6 5 1 90 Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School 2 2 Park Hill Infant School 1 1 Park Walk Primary School 1 1 Paxton Primary School 30 32 27 45 21 13 6 144 Peckham Park Primary School 1 1 Penwortham Primary School 3 3 4 4 14 Prendergast - Vale College 1 1

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Ravenstone Primary School 6 26 5 6 43 Reay Primary School 30 61 52 24 11 12 10 170 Richard Atkins Primary School 60 38 22 36 26 20 18 160 Robert Browning Primary School 1 1 2 Rockmount Primary School 9 3 8 12 5 5 42 Rosendale Primary School 90 139 95 86 72 34 24 450 Royston Primary School 1 1 Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 1 1 Sacred Heart Primary School 1 1 Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic School 2 2 Sellincourt Primary School 1 1 Servite RC Primary School 1 1 Shaftesbury Park Primary School 3 2 1 6 Sherwood Park Primary School 1 1 Singlegate First School 1 1 Sir James Barrie Primary School 3 1 1 5 Smallwood Primary School 1 1 Soho Parish CofE Primary School 1 1 2 South Norwood Primary School 1 1 Southwark Park School 1 1 Ss Peter & Paul RC Primary School 1 1 2 St Andrew's Catholic Primary School 60 65 40 28 13 15 10 171 St Andrew's Church of England Primary School 30 26 22 13 15 6 8 90 St Anne's Catholic Primary School 54 44 24 19 13 3 5 108 St Anselm's Catholic Primary School 4 1 2 4 1 12 St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 1 1 2 2 2 8 St Barnabas' CofE Primary School 1 1 2 St Bede's Catholic Infant School 60 51 24 23 8 4 5 115 St Boniface RC Primary School 1 1 2 1 5 St Chad's RC Primary School 1 2 3 St Clement and St James CofE Primary School 1 1 St Clement Dane's CofE Primary School 8 1 2 2 1 14 St Cyprian's Greek Orthodox Primary School 2 1 1 1 5 St Edward's RC Primary School 1 1 St Gabriel's CofE Primary School 1 1 2 4 St George's Cathedral RC Primary School 11 5 4 2 1 23 St George's CofE Primary School 5 1 2 1 9 St George's Hanover Square CofE Primary School 1 1

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St Helen's Catholic Primary School 38 24 28 27 11 9 10 109 St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School 4 5 4 1 1 15 St Jerome's Catholic Primary School 2 2 St John The Divine Church of England Primary School 30 14 8 12 4 5 5 48 St John's and St Clement's Church of England Primary School 1 1 2 St John's Angell Town Church of England Primary School 30 23 18 16 7 7 2 73 St John's CofE Aided Infant School 1 1 St John's Walworth Church of England Primary School 1 1 St Joseph RC Primary School 2 1 3 St Joseph Roman Catholic Primary School 1 1 St Joseph's Catholic Infant School 3 2 1 1 7 St Joseph's Catholic Junior School 1 1 St Joseph's RC Infant School 28 5 5 4 1 1 44 St Joseph's RC Primary School 2 2 St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School 1 1 St Jude's Church of England Primary School 30 38 30 27 17 14 3 129 St Leonard's Church of England Primary School 30 31 30 20 14 15 7 117 St Luke's Church of England Primary School 30 15 11 17 14 11 6 74 St Mark's Church of England Primary School 30 15 13 14 9 12 6 69 St Mark's First School 1 1 2 St Mary Abbots CofE Primary School 1 1 St Mary Magdalene Church of England Primary School 1 1 St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1 1 St Mary's Catholic Primary School (Battersea) 3 1 1 5 St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School (Lambeth) 45 47 35 23 14 12 8 139 St Matthew Academy 1 1 St Matthew's School 3 1 4 St Paul's Church of England Primary School 1 1 2 St Peter's Eaton Square CofE Primary School 7 3 3 1 1 15

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St Saviour's Church of England Primary School 30 28 17 16 7 7 3 78 St Stephen's Church of England Primary School 30 22 11 13 8 7 3 64 St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School 3 3 St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 1 1 2 St Vincent de Paul RC Primary School 2 1 1 4 Stanford Primary School 2 5 6 6 2 2 23 Stockwell Primary School 60 60 51 41 36 28 17 233 Streatham - Christ Church Streatham Church of England Primary School 30 35 35 15 10 9 134 Streatham Wells Primary School 30 53 68 45 45 39 21 271 Strewart Fleming Primary School 1 1 Sudbourne Primary School 45 103 65 53 42 22 15 300 Sunnyhill Primary School 60 56 39 39 31 26 18 209 Swaffield Primary School 1 2 3 Telferscot Primary School 30 46 63 31 23 10 10 183 The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie 1 3 4 4 1 13 The Globe Academy 1 1 The Sherwood School 2 2 Tower Bridge Primary School 1 1 Trinity St Mary's CofE Primary School 1 1 2 Trinity St Peter's CofE Primary School 1 1 Valley Primary 1 1 1 3 Vauxhall Primary School 60 24 20 20 10 9 4 87 Walnut Tree Walk Primary School 50 29 19 12 6 13 7 86 West Thornton Primary School 1 1 2 Westminster Cathedral RC Primary School 4 2 2 8 Whitehorse Manor Infant School 1 1 1 3 William Morris Primary School 1 1 Wix Primary School 16 4 5 10 2 2 39 Woodlands Primary School 1 1 Woodmansterne Primary School 60 60 42 24 15 13 6 160 Wyvil Primary School 60 59 21 21 13 9 12 135 Grand Total 3124 3089 2374 1924 1366 928 641 10322

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School Admissions Forum 23 February 2012

Bespoke arrangements for The Norwood School and Lilian Baylis Technology School

All Wards

Report authorised by : Executive Director, Children and Young People’s Service: Debbie Jones

Executive summary

During this period of consultation, two of Lambeth’s community secondary schools would like to participate in banding. They would like to purchase the test currently owned and used by Dunraven and admit children due to start school in September 2013 via fair banding.

The LA has been mindful to agree such an initiative.

Summary of financial implications

None.

Recommendations (1) For SAF to give its view on the school’s proposals.

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Consultation

Name of Department or Organisation Date s ent Date Comments consultee response appear in report received para:

Internal Mike Pocock Divisional Director, EECP 10.02.12 Maggie Harriott Education Strategy Manager, 10.02.12 EECP Pete Robbins Cabinet Member for CYPS 10.02.12 14.02.12

Report history

Background documents

N/A.

Appendices

N/A

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Bespoke arrangements for The Norwood School and Lilian Baylis Technology School

1. Context

1.1 There seems to be an increased desire for some schools to have some awareness of children’s abilities by testing.

1.2 The LA did carry out a Council-wide consultation a couple of years ago when Barry Gilhooly was the AD for Inclusion. The basis of the consultation was to find out if all Lambeth schools would agree to have a bi-Borough test with Wandsworth LA. Wandsworth Council felt this was a good way forward and agreed to cooperate if our schools agreed.

1.3 There was approximately a 50/50 split with regards to this initiative and the responses were quite polarised. Some schools fully agreed with this initiative but others were vehemently opposed.

1.4 In addition to the opposition the new financial climate the LA was facing meant that the LA had to stop this initiative as there was a cost implication for CYPS.

1.5 However, two of our community secondary schools now wish to explore this as a viable option for 2013 admissions; The Norwood School and Lilian Baylis Technology School.

1.6 SAF members may recall a paper being presented last year (after the consultation papers) when The Norwood School wanted to use banding for the 2012 cohort. However, both SAF and the Schools Adjudicator decided that they should not and so the school can only do this for 2013.

2. Proposed arrangements – The Norwood School

2.1 The Norwood School would like to band as well as offer specialist places for the performing arts specialism. The proposed arrangements are as follows:

Proposed oversubscription for The Norwood School for children due to start in September 2012

Section 88E(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 permits a referral of a proposal to the Schools Adjudicator by an admission authority who wish to vary their admission arrangements.

Lambeth LA recognises that the determination date of the 15 April 2011, for 2012/13 admission arrangements is passed. It is the LAs intention to now do the following:

Background: The Norwood School would like to use an entrance test, and also to reserve up to 10% of their Year 7 places for pupils showing a particular aptitude for their

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The purpose of an entrance test would be to band pupils in order to ensure that this rapidly improving school has a balanced and comprehensive intake. The Norwood School has shown particular strengths in helping students achieve good results, in enabling the most able to excel, and in helping those of middle ability to achieve to the best of their potential, and a balanced and fully comprehensive intake would help to ensure that the school continues to do so.

Lambeth LA (namely the CYPS) is the admissions authority for The Norwood School.

Specialist Places

This school will reserve up to 10% (up to 15 places) of their Year 7 places for pupils showing a particular aptitude for our specialism, namely the visual and performing arts. Applicants requiring a specialist place will need to sit an entrance test. All applicants for specialist places must complete a supplementary information form. They will then be invited to the school to take a short test for aptitude in visual and performing arts.

General Places

All children applying for admission to the school in Year 7 will be required to take a Verbal Reasoning, Numeracy as well as Non Verbal Reasoning tests. Children who have not taken the tests will only be considered for a place at the school after those who have taken the test. In the case of continued oversubscription after the full allocation of places, a place will only become available to a child who has not taken the test once all other children remaining on the oversubscription waiting list for places have been offered a place.

All applicants will be placed in one of five bands, based on their score in the Test. Once the specialist places have been allocated and places have been allocated to children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs in which the school is the named school, the remaining places will be allocated on the basis of the oversubscription criteria detailed below, so that equal numbers of applicants are admitted from each band.*

The criteria will be applied to applicants in each band in the order set out below:

Criterion 1 – Looked After Children

A child in public care (looked after child) means a person under the age of 18 years who is provided by social services with accommodation by agreement with their parents/carers (Section 20 of the Children Act 1989) or who is the subject of a care order under Part IV of the Act. Children who are looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements (such as respite) are excluded. All applications under this criterion must be supported by a letter from the relevant Local Authority

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Criterion 2 – Siblings

Children with a brother or sister who already attends the school, and who will not have left the school at the time of admission. As a result siblings in the nursery or year 6 of a primary school, or year 11 at a secondary school will not be regarded as a sibling under this criterion. A sibling is defined as a full/half/step brother or sister (who are living at the same address in all instances) or a child who is living as part of the family by reason of a court order, or a child who has been placed with foster carers at that address as a result of being looked after by the Local Authority. However, children who are looked after under an agreed series of short- term placements (such as respite) will not be regarded as siblings under this criterion.

Criterion 3 – Children with Exceptional Medical or Social Needs

Children with a professionally supported medical or social need, whose application identifies a particular school that is especially able to meet that need. The decision to prioritise children on these grounds will be determined via Lambeth CYPS’ MEDSOC Panel, which is comprised of CYPS senior management as well as senior school staff. Documents from an appropriate professional (not including general information from a website, etc) must support these applications. However, any supporting evidence does not automatically mean that applicants will gain priority as the decision to prioritise under this criterion will solely rest with the MEDSOC Panel.

Criterion 4 – Distance

Priority will be given on the basis of distance between the child’s home and the school, measured by a straight-line. This measurement will be done using the SIA Datamap computerised mapping system.

This measurement will be from a point from the child’s home as identified by the software to a central point in the school’s grounds as profiled in the software. The child’s home address will be the child’s permanent place of residency and must not be a business address, or the address of a relative or carer, unless they have legal custody of the child. Applications must only be made from a single address.

If parents are separated and share custody of the child, the address given should be that of the parent with whom the child spends most of the school week, which will normally be the address where Child Benefit is payable. If the parent making the application lives at a different address to the child, a letter of explanation should be attached. It is not acceptable for a family to use a temporarily rented address to secure a place of their preference. In disputed cases, Lambeth School Admissions will make a judgement based on the evidence available to them.

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Applications or offers under this criteria will only be valid once proof of address has been given and confirmed.

As a tiebreaker for all criteria, priority will be given to children living closest to the preferred school (measured by a straight-line) in accordance with the measuring information in criterion 4. However, in the case where children have exactly the same distance between their home and the school, Lambeth LA will randomly allocate places as a tiebreaker.

* Where the number of places remaining is not equally divisible by five, an additional place will be allocated in one or more bands.

3. The proposed arrangements for Lilian Baylis Technology School

3.1 Lilian Baylis would simply like to band and so their proposed arrangements are as follows:

Lilian Baylis Technology School (LGBS) – proposed admission arrangements for 2013

Lambeth LA (namely the CYPS) is the admissions authority for Lilian Baylis Technology School (LGBS). LGBS will use an entrance test as part of its admissions. The purpose of the entrance test would be to band pupils in order to ensure that this school has a balanced and comprehensive intake.

Specialist Places

This school will reserve up to 10% (up to 15 places) of their Year 7 places for pupils showing a particular aptitude for our specialism, namely the Maths & Science. Applicants requiring a specialist place will need to sit an entrance test. All applicants for specialist places must complete a LGBS supplementary information form. They will then be invited to the school to take a short test for aptitude in visual and performing arts.

General Places

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The criteria will be applied to applicants in each band in the order set out below:

Criterion 1 – Looked After Children

Criterion 2 – Siblings

Criterion 3 – Children with Exceptional Medical or Social Needs

Children with a professionally supported medical or social need, whose application identifies a particular school that is especially able to meet that need. The decision to prioritise children on these grounds will be determined via Lambeth CYPS’ MEDSOC Panel, which is comprised of CYPS senior management. Documents from an appropriate professional (not including general information from a website, etc) must support these applications. However, any supporting evidence does not automatically mean that applicants will gain priority as the decision to prioritise under this criterion will solely rest with the MEDSOC Panel.

Criterion 4 – Distance

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Applications or offers under this criteria will only be valid once proof of address has been given and confirmed.

* Where the number of places remaining is not equally divisible by five, an additional place will be allocated in one or more bands . ______