Admission Arrangements
for September 2008
The Governing Body will make admission to the school.
The Governors will admit 180 pupils at 11+. Priority will
be given to baptised Catholic children. All applicants
are required to declare positive support for the aims and
the ethos of the school.
In each category preference will be given to children
in public care at the time of the application.
The Governing Body reserves the right to admit children
with proven and exceptional needs where admission to the
school might best help satisfy those needs.
Admission for Year 7 in September at Mount St Mary’s
High School is part of a co-ordinated scheme across the
LEA, where offers are made on behalf of the Governing Body
by Education Leeds. To apply for admission for a Year 7
place in September, parents will need to complete two forms – one
that will be distributed by Education Leeds (Common Preference
Form) and one that is obtainable only from Mount
St Mary’s High School (Supplementary Information
Form).
Admissions for other years or Year 7 after the start of
the academic year should be made on the Supplementary Information
Form only, obtainable from the school.
Admission to the school will be made in accordance with
stated parental preference subject to the following set
of admission criteria, forming a priority order when there
are more applications for admissions than the school has
places available.
- Baptised Catholics who are resident in one of the following
Leeds Catholic parishes St
Anthony; Cathedral (St Anne); Christ the King; St
Francis, Holbeck; Holy Family; St Joseph, Hunslet;
Our Lady of Lourdes; St Patrick; St Peter; St Philip;
St Wilfrid.
and
transferring from a Catholic Primary School
serving one of the above parishes
and
have a brother or sister attending Mount St Mary's
Catholic High School at the time of transfer.
- Baptised Catholics who are resident in one of the
above named Leeds Catholic parishes
and
transferring from a Catholic Primary School serving
one of the above parishes
- Baptised Catholics who have a brother or sister
attending Mount St Mary’s Catholic High School
at the time of transfer.
- Baptised Catholics transferring from one of the
Catholic primary schools serving the above named parishes.
- Baptised Catholics who are resident in one of the above
named Leeds Catholic parishes.
- Other Baptised Catholics.
- Non-Catholic children whose parents wish them to
receive a Catholic Secondary Education and who are
resident in one of the above named Leeds Catholic parishes
and
transferring from the Catholic Primary School serving
one of the above parishes
and
have a brother or sister attending Mount St Mary's
Catholic High School at the time of transfer.
- Non-Catholic children whose parents wish them to
receive a Catholic Secondary Education and who are resident
in one of the above named Leeds Catholic parishes
and
transferring from the Catholic Primary School serving
one of the above parishes.
- Non-Catholic children whose parents wish them to
receive a Catholic Secondary Education and who have a
brother or sister attending Mount St Mary's Catholic
High School at the time of transfer.
- Non-Catholic children transferring from a Catholic
Primary school, and whose parents wish them to receive
a Catholic Secondary Education.
- Non-Catholic children who are baptised or full
members of another Christian denomination or other faith
and whose parents wish them to receive a Catholic Secondary
Education.
- Non-Catholic children resident in the above named
parishes whose parents wish them to receive a Catholic
Secondary Education.
- Other Non-Catholics whose parents wish them to receive
a Catholic Secondary Education.
It is the Governing Body’s policy not to consider
repeat applications in the same academic year, unless
there has been a major relevant change in your circumstances
(for example, a valid change of address).
FOOTNOTES:
- Baptised Catholics are those who have been baptised
according to the rites of the Catholic Church or who
have formally been received into the Catholic Church.
- If any of the categories are oversubscribed a place
will be allocated on a nearest to school basis. A
straight line distance will be used as the measure .
- For admission purposes, the home address is deemed
to be where a child is habitually and normally resident
with his/her parent(s) or guardian(s).
- The address of a carer/childminder or relative
who does not have parental rights under the provisions
of the Children Act must not be given. The Governors
reserve the right to investigate the question of residency
and to amend school offers accordingly.
- Where the school is oversubscribed, a waiting list
will operate until 30th September. Parents who
wish their child’s name to be put on the waiting
list should contact the school for this purpose
after 1st March when offers for all schools are distributed
by Education Leeds.
- Following notification to parents by Education
Leeds the school contacts parents asking if they are
firmly accepting the place at Mount St Mary’s. If
we receive no written response to this request within
four weeks then the place will be allocated elsewhere.
Places on the waiting list will be allocated according
to the above admission criteria and not when names are
placed on the waiting list.
RIGHT OF APPEAL
If an application for admission is refused by the Governing
Body parents have the right of appeal to an independent
panel. Any such appeal must be received within 21 days
of the refusal and be addressed to:
The Clerk to the Appeals Panel
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