Admissions Years 7-11
Posted by pv - 06/10/2009
Beal High School is a community comprehensive school. The Local Education Authority, Redbridge, is responsible for all admission arrangements. It has been agreed with Redbridge that our ‘admission number’ is 240. This is the number of students in the year group that can be safely and comfortably accommodated in the school .
For 2006 transfer to secondary school parents are required to complete an application form on which they can name up to six schools in Redbridge and place them in ‘rank order. Students will be considered for each school that is named; however, where students are eligible for a place at more than one school (whether in Redbridge or other areas), their ranking will be used to allocate the place at the school ranked most highly. It is very important that parents think carefully about the rank order.
Listed below are the criteria by which places will be allocated to Redbridge community comprehensive schools, including Beal High School:
- Children with statements of special educational needs will be admitted to the school that is named on their statement;
- “Looked after” children (those who are in the public care of the Local Authority);
- Children living in the Beal High School catchment area;
- Children resident after the application deadline, whose parents express a preference for their ‘linked’ catchment school, Wanstead High School;
- Children with a sibling attending the named school, who is both currently on roll at the school and who will continue to attend that school in the following academic year, based on the distance from home to school using the shortest reasonable walking route using public roads and footpaths, as measured by a Geographic Information System;
- Children living outside the catchment area who do not have a sibling attending, based on the distance from home to school, using the shortest reasonable walking route, using public roads and footpaths, as measured by a Geographic Information System.
Parents who are unhappy with the school place they are offered, can appeal, in accordance with the School’s Standards and Framework Act 1998. The Local Authority, Redbridge, will provide the necessary information. Some places may arise at Beal High School at a later date as families move. These places will be filled from the waiting list.