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Admission to Primary School 2011-2012 Booklet - Wigan Council

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<strong>Admission</strong>s <strong>to</strong> primary school in <strong>2011</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />

The ‘equal preference’ system and the priority order of<br />

schools on your application<br />

By law, we must use the equal-preference system when we consider your<br />

application for a school place.<br />

We offer places by doing the following.<br />

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First, we rank all first-, second- and third-preference applications by using the<br />

school’s admission criteria. This means that some second- and thirdpreference<br />

applications will be ranked higher than some first-preference<br />

applications.<br />

We use schools’ admission numbers <strong>to</strong> find out how many children can be<br />

offered a place at each school.<br />

We then offer places <strong>to</strong> all children whose first preference can be met, and<br />

remove their second and third preferences from the list.<br />

We do this again for second preferences and then third preferences.<br />

This means that if you miss out on your first-preference school, you still have a fair<br />

chance of being offered a place at your second- or third-preference school.<br />

Voluntary-aided (church) schools<br />

The governors of voluntary-aided (church) schools rank applications using their<br />

admission criteria. The ranks are then given <strong>to</strong> the <strong>School</strong> Places Team who<br />

co-ordinate the offer of a single place in the same way as described above.

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