Consultation - OPJ Admissions Policy 2026-27

We are consulting on a change to our Admissions Policy for 2026-27 entry. The changes refer to our Admissions Priority Criteria which have been changed to the following:

Admissions Criteria         
To be considered under the following criteria parents must have named the school as a preference. Under the following criteria all preferences are considered equally. If a child qualifies for more than one school, they will be offered their highest preference as stated on their application form.                                                                  

PRIORITY A
Children in Public care (Looked After Children) or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement, or special guardianship order including those who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care because of being adopted.

PRIORITY B
Children who live within a 1.5-mile radius* of the school and for whom there will be a sibling* in attendance at the time of application at the preferred school.

*Sibling is defined as sharing at least one parent or legally adopted into the family, and in every case the child should be living in the same family unit at the same address.  For the purposes of distance Priority B, Oldfield Park Infant and Junior are a paired infant and junior school and will be treated as one school.

PRIORITY C
At the time of application, the child attends Oldfield Park Infant School.

PRIORITY D
Children for whom are closest to the mid-point* as measured in a direct line.

*In the case of Oldfield Park Infant and Junior Schools the direct line distance will be measured to a midpoint between the paired Infant and Junior Schools. For Oldfield Park Infant and Junior Schools, the midpoint is 29 Maybrick Rd BA2 3PU. The measurements will be determined using a GIS computerised mapping system.

The link to our proposed Admissions Policy 2026-27 is below:

Oldfield-Park-Junior-School-Admission-Policy-2026-2027.pdfThe consultation period is Monday 25th November 2024 to Monday 20th January 2025.

Any comments should be submitted to the School Office at opjoffice@palladianacademytrust.com by Monday 20th January 2025.