Parents / Admissions

 

Admissions to the School

 

 

 

 

 

Admissions to the school are determined by the governors in accordance with the policy set out below. The Published Admissions Number for Year 7 is 160. The Governors are committed to a continuing policy of open admissions to the school without any selection or discrimination.

 

 

Applying for a place

Admissions booklets and application forms are distributed to all children in Year 6 in Surrey maintained schools in September, and are also made available through Surrey’s Contact Centre which answers general admission enquiries for the Local Authority (LA). The telephone number for the Contact Centre is 0845 6009 009.  This information is also available on the Surrey County Council website www.surreycc.gov.uk/admissions.

 

You can apply for a school place either on the Surrey LA paper application form or on-line. The application form invites parents to rank their three preferred schools in order of priority. The paper application form should be completed and returned to your child’s current Surrey maintained school, or directly to the LA if s/he attends an out-county or independent school. The on-line form goes directly to the LA. The closing date for all applications (either paper or on-line) is at 12 noon on the Friday when schools break up for the autumn half-term. We do not ask parents to submit any other application form.

 

At the beginning of March letters are sent out by Surrey LA to all parents informing you of the school at which a place has been allocated to your child. If you have not been offered a place at Guildford County School, please contact us immediately. We will then explain the procedures for appealing and joining a waiting list.

 

 Late applications

If you do not manage to meet the deadline for applications, because you are new to the area, you wish to change your preference, or for any other reason, please contact the school and submit your application form, paper or on-line, to Surrey LA.

 

Allocating places

The following admissions criteria are used, in order of priority, to allocate places when the school is oversubscribed: 

1. Looked After Children
2. Exceptional Circumstances
3. Siblings
4. Nearest School
5. Any Other Applicants

 

 

 

Exceptional circumstances includes children with Statements of Special Educational Needs which name Guildford County School in the statement, and children who need priority places on medical grounds or because of other sensitive individual and compelling family circumstances.

 

 

Within each category the distance from home to school, measured in a straight line, will be used to prioritise places.

 

Appeals

 

 

 

Appeals are the responsibility of our governing body. Please contact the school directly in the first place if you would like to lodge an appeal, since we can let you know whether an appeal is likely to be necessary. The appeals system is operated independently of the school, and we aim to ensure that all appeals are heard by the end of June. 

 

 

 

 

Waiting lists

We operate a waiting list to determine which child will be offered any place that becomes available.  The waiting list reflects our admissions criteria as listed above. If you apply for a place after the start of Year 7 or in any other year group, and there are none available at that time, we will automatically place you on the waiting list and contact you as soon as we have a place to offer.

 

 

 

 

 

Admission at the start of Year 12 (Sixth Form)

 

 

 

Each year, the Governors will invite applications from students of Year 11 age who are members of other schools, but wish to join the Sixth Form (Years 12 and 13) of Guildford County School.  They will do this by, for example, advertisement in the local newspaper and through the distribution of the Sixth Form brochure to local schools, and by the publishing of an applications date – normally in late January for students wishing to join in the following September.  The Governors will however consider applications when they are received; and places will be offered on the basis of negotiated programmes of study, and with careful reference to the applicant’s current school.  In addition to providing post-16 education for their own students, the Governors are keen to provide opportunities for further study at age 16 for new students, subject to the school’s published admissions number.