Admissions Criteria

Fixby J&I School is a Kirklees Maintained Community School. Our Admissions Policy and Procedures are administered by Kirklees Pupil Admissions. The Admission Criteria states:

1. Children in public care (looked after children) and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be as a result of being adopted.
2. Children who live in the school’s Priority Admission Area (PAA) who have a brother or sister attending from the same address at the date of admission (the sibling rule).
3. Children who live in the school’s PAA.
4. Children who live outside the school’s PAA who have a brother or sister attending from the same address at the date of admission (the sibling rule)
5. Children who live outside the school’s PAA.

Community and voluntary controlled schools will admit a child with special educational needs and/or disabilities when the school is named on the Education Health and Care Plan. Click the link below to read the full Admissions Policy for further information or contact Kirklees Pupil Admissions directly on 01484 225007. Alternatively, speak to a member of staff in the school office.

• Fixby J&I School Policies & Procedures

Applying for a Primary School Place

Children can start Reception year, also known as Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), at primary school from the September after their fourth birthday. Each year the round of applications opens on 1st September and closes on 15th January the following year. All applications for a school place must be made online via the Kirklees website. Please click on the link for further information: Applying for a Primary School Place

Applying for a Secondary School Place

If you live in Kirklees, please follow the application process on the Kirklees website. Still use this even if your preferred school is outside of Kirklees. You still need to apply for a place at a secondary school even if your child has siblings at the secondary school. Each year the round of applications opens on 1st September and closes on 31st October of the same year. 

Applications and further information can be made by clicking the picture below to access the Kirklees website:

Changing Schools Mid-Year

An in-year admission is when a child already attends a school but wants to transfer to another school outside the usual transfer time, for example, because the child is moving to a new address. These transfers take place during the school year, which is why they are called in-year admissions. There are two different types of in-year admission:

• Parents or carers who are moving/have moved house and wish to move to a school closer to their new home.
• Parents or carers who are not moving house, or whose change of address is not a significant one (a significant house move is defined as over 2 miles for Key Stage 1 or 3 miles for Key Stage 2 and above), would like their child to change school.

You may apply at any time during the school year, but no earlier than one school term in advance of when the school place is required. A child usually starts at a new school at the beginning of a term unless their home address has changed significantly, or they are new to Kirklees. Please indicate in the form if this is the case.

If you have moved house and do not have a school place for your child, or if your child cannot continue to attend their current school because it is too far from your new home, you will need to complete the In-Year Common Application Form (ICAF).

Or

If you are not moving house, or you have not moved very far but want to change your child's school for personal reasons, you should discuss this in the first instance with the head teacher of your child's present school. This may resolve any issues that may have made you think about changing your child's school. If after speaking with the head teacher of your child's present school, you still want to transfer your child to another school, you should complete the In-Year Common Application Form (ICAF).

If your child has an Education, Health and Care Plan (in accordance with the Children and Families Act 2014) then please do not complete the ICAF. You should contact your child's SEND caseworker to discuss a change of school.

You can apply to any school(s) in Kirklees on the Kirklees ICAF, but not private fee-paying schools.

If you want to apply to a school/academy in another local authority, you will need to fill in that authority's ICAF. Contact details of neighbouring authorities can be found on the Kirklees website.

You should return the completed ICAF directly to the school/academy that you name in Section 7 of the form. If your preference is for a Kirklees community or voluntary controlled school, the school will forward details of your request to Kirklees Pupil Admissions to process.

Please be aware that if the school/academy receives your application during the school holidays, they may not be able to consider your application until the start of the new school term. Further information from the Kirklees website can be found by clicking the following link:

Kirklees Pupil Admissions - Changing School During the Year

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