Information Governance Team ● The Parkhouse Building ● Kingmoor Business Park ● Carlisle ● Cumbria ● CA6 4SJ T: 01228 221234 ● E: [email protected] PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 28 August 2020 Dear Freedom of Information Act 2000, Reference: FOI-6275-2020 The council has completed its search relating to your request about Secondary School admissions received on Mon, 03 Aug 2020. Request Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please supply the following: 1. A list of all secondary, middle and upper schools in Cumbria and whether they were oversubscribed or not- oversubscribed on national offer day 2020 (1st March). Please include each school’s Unique Reference Number (URN), DFE code, and/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. 2. The total number of places offered at each school on national offer day 2020. Questions 3-5 apply to oversubscribed schools identified in question 1 only: 3. The number of on-time applicants refused a place, at each individual school, who were not offered a place at any higher preference school. By this we mean the number of unsuccessful on-time applicants remaining on each school’s waiting list on offer day. 4. The admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted on offer day. 5. The home-to-school distance of the last successful applicant, assuming distance was used to allocate this place. Please include measurement units and whether this is based upon a walking/driving route, straight line/as the / crow flies distance or an alternative measurement system. Please always list all schools within the Cumbria Local Authority even if you are unable to provide all the requested information - simply mark the relevant values as ‘Not Known’. Note: If any of these dates differ - please align to the relevant secondary offer/deadline dates for your local authority. • Secondary National Offer Day - 1st March 2020. • On-time applications – submitted before October 31st 2019 • Late applications – submitted after October 31st 2019 Middle deemed primary schools (if present in your authority) may align with other primary education provider dates If you feel that more information is required to interpret your answers to these questions, then please supply this information too. The information we collect will be used to update our findaschool service. This is a free service that provides parents with information regarding schools – with a focus on admissions – helping them to better understand their chances of getting a place at their preferred schools. Response The council does hold information within the definition of your request. Please see attached spreadsheet. 1 March 2020 was a Sunday so in Cumbria offer information was issued on Monday 2 March 2020 (the next working day). The remaining deadline dates set out above are applicable to the transfer to secondary main intake process in Cumbria LA. Disclaimer Most of the information that we provide in response to requests submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004 will be subject to copyright protection. In most cases the copyright will be owned by Cumbria County Council. However the copyright in other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as indicated on the information itself. 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. If you have any issues relating to this letter you should attempt to resolve them, in the first instance, with the / council, by requesting 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 Information Governance Team / School name Status DfE Under/Over Subscribed Total number of Number of timely Admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted Distance placed offered on 2 applicants refused a March place at any higher preference school Appleby Grammar School Ac 5407 Not oversubscribed 52 Beacon Hill Community School C 4001 Not oversubscribed 32 Caldew School Ac 5413 Not oversubscribed 157 Cartmel Priory CE School Ac 5410 Not oversubscribed 60 Central Academy Ac 6906 Not oversubscribed 205 Chetwynde School Free 6025 Oversubscribed 35 13 Category 4 - Children living closest to the main gate of the school. Measured by a 2349.2054 meters, straight-line measure. Chetwynde School is a free school. For straight-line measure from the centre of the pupil's home address. information about the allocation process, please contact the school directly, tel: 01229 824210. Cockermouth School Ac 4103 Oversubscribed 236 15 Category 10 - Students living outside the catchment area. 11105.55 meters, straight-line measure. Cockermouth School is an academy. For further information about the allocation process, please contact the school directly, tel: 01900 898888. Dallam School Ac 5405 Oversubscribed 200 9 Category 5 - Other children by distance from the school, with priority given to children 14125.00 meters, straight-line measure. Dallam School is an academy. For further who live nearest the school as measured by postcode. Distances are measured in a information about the allocation process, please cntact the school directly, tel: straight line from the child's home address to the school. 015395 65165. Dowdales School C 4150 Not oversubscribed 136 Furness Academy Ac 6908 Oversubscribed 240 61 Category E - For those who attend a Furness Academy catchment feeder primary 1.32 kilometers, straight-line measure. Furness Academy is an academy. For further school. information about the allocation process, please contact the school directly, tel: 01229 484270. John Ruskin School C 4151 Oversubscribed 50 6 Category 7 - Children living outside the catchment area, giving priority to those who 21796.678 meters, straight-line measure. The LA is the admission authority for this live closest to the school, measured by a straight-line measure between the centre of school. the pupil'sd home address and a common point on the school site as determined by the LA. Keswick School Ac 5414 Oversubscribed 188 Kirkbie Kendal School Ac 5400 Oversubscribed 175 20 Category 3 - Children living in the catchment areas of Heron Hill School, Vicarage Park 10293.38 meters, straight-line measure. Kirkbie Kendal School is an academy. For School, Natland St mark's CE School, Old Hutton CE School and children attending further information about the allocation process, please contact the school directly, Dean Gibson RC School and Ghyllside School. tel: 01539 727422. Kirkby Stephen Grammar School Ac 5406 Not oversubscribed 67 Lakes School, The C 4056 Not oversubscribed 82 Millom School C 4204 Not oversubscribed 99 Morton Academy Ac 6905 Oversubscribed 180 44 Category c(ii) - Other children living in the catchment area of the Academy as defined 2620.4802 meters, shortest safe walking route. Morton Academy is an academy. For by the LA catchment map who will be prioritised by those who live closest to the further information about the allocation process, please contact the school directly, Academy measured by the shortest safe walking route by road (the distance to be tel: 01228 822644. determined using a distance measurement tool, such as Goofgle maps). Nelson Thomlinson School, The C 4501 Oversubscribed 210 8 Category 7 - Children living outside the catchment area, giving priority to those who 16774.995 meters, straight-line measure. The LA is the admission authority for this live closest to the school, measured by a straight-line measure between the centre of school. the pupil'sd home address and a common point on the school site as determined by the LA. Netherhall School C 4104 Not oversubscribed 133 Newman Catholic School VA 4630 Oversubscribed 120 26 Category 7 - All other children. Distance information not known. Newman Catholic School has voluntary aided status. For further information about the allocation process, please contact the school directly, Tel: 01228 404942. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Ac 5401 Oversubscribed 160 47 Pupils are selected on the basis of their aptitude for the academic nature of the Distance information not known. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is an academy. eductaion offered at the school, such selection being by way of evidence of aptitude For further information about the allocation process, please contact school directly, from the entrance test. tel: 01768 864621.