Admissions Arrangements 2010

Lambeth Academy is an inclusive school and welcomes children from the local community. The Governors are also committed to ensuring that the admissions to the Academy reflect the full range of ability.

Lambeth Academy admits up to 180 students to Year 7 each September. Last year, 680 children applied. In order to ensure that the intake to the Academy represents the full range of ability, the Academy will use student banding as part of its admissions arrangements if it is oversubscribed. Other than to determine the ability band into which a student will be placed, the assessment of a student’s ability plays no other part in the admission arrangements for Lambeth Academy.

Admissions to Lambeth Academy will be coordinated through the Pan London Coordinated Admissions Scheme and its timetable. Applications should be submitted on the Common Application Form to the local authority responsible for the parental address.

The admission of students with a Statement of Special Educational Needs is conducted through a separate process. Parents of these students should contact their home Local Authority’s SEN department.

 

Over-subscription

If there are more applicants than the number of places available the following over-subscription criteria will be applied. All applicants will be asked to take a cognitive ability test and, based on their test score, will be placed in one of five equal ability bands, with the same number of applicants in each band. After places have been allocated to children with a Statement of Special Educational Need that names Lambeth Academy, places within each band will be allocated in the following order of priority:

• Children in Public Care (Looked After Children)
• Siblings of students currently attending the Academy and who will continue to do so on the date of admissions. The term “sibling” means a full, step, half, adopted or fostered brother or sister, but not cousins. The Academy reserves the right to ask for proof of relationship.
• Special medical needs, social needs and special needs (where the application is supported by written specific professional advice, e.g. from a doctor or specialist, not a primary school alone, as to why admission to the Academy is necessary.) The decision as to whether the Academy is uniquely placed to meet the stated need of the applicant will be determined by panel appointed by the Local Governing Body. The panel will give special consideration to children with a visual impairment.
•  Nearest straight-line distance to the Academy. The distance which determines how close the student lives to the Academy is the shortest straight-line distance between the door to the student’s permanent address and the designated entrance to the Academy main building.

 

 

A child’s permanent address is the place of normal residence during term time. Where parental responsibility is shared, the address of the parent/guardian who receives the Child Benefit Allowance for the child will be taken as the permanent address.

Proof of residence can be requested at any time throughout the admissions process. If false or misleading information is used to gain entry to the Academy, the offer of a place will be withdrawn and an appeal offered.

(A full statement of the Admissions Arrangements, including post16 admissions, can be obtained from www.lambeth-academy.org or from the Academy at the address below.)

 

How to apply

Applications must be made using the Common Application Form from your home local authority by Friday 23rd October 2009. Those applying will be sent arrangements for the holding of the banding test at the Academy.