The school is a State Co-educational Selective Grammar School.   The school is a Trust School and therefore responsible for setting its own admission requirements and in common with state schools throughout the country, the school is part of a Co-ordinated Local Admission scheme; details are provided below.

BACKGROUND FOR 2011 ADMISSION

In 2007, National Statutory changes to Admission Legislation were published.  These changes mean that all school preferences expressed by parents must be given equal consideration.

Although there are minor variations in practice across the country, each Local Authority Area shares the following common features:

•  A single application form covers application to all state secondary schools
•  Parents can express at least 3 school preferences
•  A child will receive only one offer of a school place

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRY TO COLYTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Colyton Grammar School is a Selective Co-educational Trust School, responsible for its testing arrangements and admission criteria.
                              
Any applicant achieving an eligible score on each test (Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics and English) is automatically considered for entry.  There may be more children with eligible scores than places available.

ADMISSION CRITERIA

Applicants achieving eligible scores will be ranked on the basis of performance in the entrance tests and places allocated by Devon Local Authority.  Those with a eligible score and who have a statement of special needs naming the school will be allocated a place.

The School has a planned admission number of 120 pupils in Year 7 (Grammar Schools are not permitted to expand).

For all other children where there is a tie for the last available place due to the applicants having identical scores, the following priority order will be used as a tie-breaker:

1. Children who are in Care (Looked After Children)
   
2. Proximity to the school as measured by a straight line from the main school entrance to the house address of the applicant using GIS (Geographical Information Systems)

Definition - Children in Care
Children who are looked after, or provided with accommodation in the exercise of its function, by Devon Local Authority, or any other Local Authority which has informed Devon of its wish to place a child.

HOW DOES THE COMMON APPLICATION PROCESS OPERATE?

The Ranking Stage

1. When you complete the Common Application Form you will be asked to rank your preferred schools in the order of your preference (most local authorities ask for 3 preferences; some allow more).
   
2. Every admitting authority must consider each expressed preference equally, regardless of whether the school was placed first, second, third etc.
   
• This means that for every school named on the form, the child is ranked against others applying by the application of the published Admissions Priority criteria. 
  
• The priority is not influenced by the school preferences order expressed on the Common Application Form.

The Allocation Stage

1. Allocation of school is made by the Local Authority up to the prescribed number of places available at each individual school.  The places are allocated in the order that children appear on the eligible list
   
2. If a child is on the eligible list for one or more schools, then the child is allocated to the school for which the parent expressed the highest preference.
   
3. If the child is not on the eligible list of a 'preferred' school, then the child will be placed by the Local Authority at the nearest appropriate school with a place available.
   
4. The Local Authority will post notification of allocation on 1 March 2011, (those who applied by on-line application will receive the decision by email by the same date).

STATISTICAL DATA - APPLICATIONS FOR YEAR 7 ENTRY 2010

Admission to Year 11   

We operate a three-year Sixth Form programme, following our students taking GCSE at the end of Y10.  Any new Sixth Form student would have to be prepared to join Y11 and spend three more years at school.

Following consultation, the agreed Planned Admission Number (PAN) set for the school at Y11 is 120.

To be on the eligible list for available places, the student will firstly need to complete an application form and meet the criteria for entry to the Sixth Form which requires:

• A total of 390 points achieved over eight subjects at GCSE
• Evidence of independent study skills consistent with the demands of the school’s A Level programme

After the existing Colyton Grammar School students have made their choices, option blocks will be set.

All external students likely to meet the entry criteria who can be accommodated in teaching groups will be placed on the draft eligible list.

Where there are more eligible applicants than places, the following priority order will be used as a tie-breaker:

• Children who are in Public Care (Looked After Children)
• Proximity to the school as measured by a straight line from the main school entrance to the house address of the applicant using GIS (Geographical Information System)

We will indicate an applicant's position on the waiting list when this is known, but with late applications this is liable to change.

On the publication of GCSE results, the waiting list will be confirmed.  Firm places will be offered in August for September 2011, up to the Planned Admission Number.

The school declines to set a Planned Admission Number for Y12, as this will not be an appropriate point for entry into the school.

documents

The Main School Prospectus containing the complete Entrance Policy, and a separate Sixth Form Prospectus can both be downloaded from the Handbook section of this website.   Click here

Admissions Policy documents for the last three years are available here

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