They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. Look at our school catchment area guide for more information on heat maps.Own admission authority for the current admission arrangements.ģ steps to help parents gather catchment information for a school: Living in an area where children have previouslyĪttended a school does not guarantee admission to the school in future years. Priority for siblings, children of a particular faith or specific feeder schools. These criteria can include distance from the school and sometimes specific catchment areas but can also include, amongst others, The criteria in which schools use to allocate places in the event that they are oversubscribed can and do vary between schools and over time. This information is provided as a guide only. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.
children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.įor some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. It is a visualisation of where pupils lived at the time of the annual School Census. This School Guide heat map has been plotted using official pupil data taken from the last School Census collected by the Department for Education.
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