Warboys School takes children from the villages of Warboys, Old Hurst and Woodhurst and Warboys Fen.
Children start school in the year in which they become 5, i.e. from 1 September. It is the governors' policy to 'stagger' the admission of reception children in the Autumn Term. The induction programme for children starts the Summer Term before they officially start school. We stagger the intake over the first two weeks of the Autumn Term until all children are attending mornings only. After a further two weeks the children stay for
lunch for a week and have a full time place after this time. The standard admission number for each academic year is 60 children: total capacity 420.
The governors follow the LEA admissions policy for children, which is to admit catchment area children up to the standard number for each year or the overall standard number. In the event of an admission being refused the following selection criteria will be used if spaces are available:
· Children with a statement of special educational need which names the school or for whom this is the only school that can meet their long-term medical needs.
· Children living in the catchment area with a sibling at the school at the time of admission.
· Children living in the catchment area.
· Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the school at the time of admission.
· Children living outside the catchment area who have been unable to gain a place in their catchment area school because of oversubscription.
· In case of equal merit, priority will go first to the children who are looked after (i.e. in public care) and then to children living nearest the school according to the shortest available travel route.
