School admission arrangements 2025/26

Proposal

One proposed change to Shropshire Council's admission arrangements for 2025/26 for community and voluntary controlled schools that require consultation is as follows:

St Lawrence CE Primary School, Church Stretton is proposing to reduce the Published Admissions Number (PAN) from 34 to 30.

Shropshire Council are proposing changes to the in-year admission arrangements from 1 September 2024 for all community and voluntary controlled schools as well as own admission authority schools. Shropshire Council is proposing that the local authority will be responsible for co-ordinating in-year applications, as well as retaining responsibility for co-ordinating main admissions rounds for all state funded schools in the local authority area. The proposed co-ordination represents a significant change from the existing position where the responsibility for in-year applications is delegated to all Shropshire schools and therefore consultation is required.  A detailed proposal and protocol, including what this will mean for schools is attached below.

Further to this, the Council is co-ordinating a consultation exercise for own admission authority schools in Shropshire whose trustees or governing bodies are responsible for setting their admission arrangements and who wish to make changes. We wish to notify all parents/carers and interested parties that the consultation will begin on 4 December 2023 and continue for more than 6 weeks until 19 January 2024. The proposed admission arrangements subject to change are laid out in the attached documents below.

The following own admission authority schools have proposed these changes:

• Alveley Primary School is proposing to add medical and staff criteria to the policy
• Barrow 1618 Primary School is proposing to remove faith-based related criteria from the policy
• Bowbrook Primary School is a new school in Shropshire and opened in September 2023 and as such needs to consult on the proposed oversubscription criteria and admissions policy
• Castlefields Primary School, Bridgnorth is proposing to add medical and staff criteria to the policy
• Cleobury Mortimer Primary School is proposing to add medical criteria to the policy
• Clunbury CE Primary School is proposing to add medical criteria to the policy
• Greenacres Primary School is proposing to add staff criteria into the policy
• Longden CE Primary School is proposing to removal of faith-related criteria from the policy and proposes to add staff criteria and move medical consideration higher in the policy
• Much Wenlock Primary School has joined the 3-18 Education Trust and is proposing to remove the medical criteria along with adding staff criteria to bring the policy in line with those in the rest of the trust
• Our Lady & St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Oswestry is proposing to give priority to all looked after children and previously looked after children whether or not of the faith
• Stokesay Primary School is proposing to add medical and staff criteria to the policy
• St Leonard's CE Primary School, Bridgnorth is proposing to add medical and staff criteria to the policy
• St Michaels Federation, consisting of Lydbury North CE Primary School and Onny CE Primary School is proposing to move medical consideration higher in the policy
• St John's Catholic Primary School, Bridgnorth is proposing to give priority to all looked after children and previously looked after children whether or not of the faith
• St Mary's CE (Aided) Primary School, Bucknall is proposing to add medical criteria to the policy
• Church Stretton School is proposing to add medical and staff criteria into the policy
• Idsall School Academy has recently joined The Marches Multi-Academy Trust and is proposing to add medical criteria to bring the policy in line with those in the rest of the trust
• Oldbury Wells School is proposing to add medical criteria and move staff priority in the policy
• Mary Webb School is proposing to move staff criteria in their policy to standardise with the other schools with TrustEd-CSat