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Year 7 Admissions September 2027
Applications are welcomed for places for boys' residents in all boroughs.
Each year, the school holds an Open Evening, typically in late September, and after that, school tours are available for prospective parents/carers to view the school in action and to sample the learning atmosphere.
Prospectus
If you would like a copy of the school's prospectus then please telephone the school or email them through the links below.
Admissions Criteria For Entry to Year 7
Where more applications are received than there are places available, places will be offered in the following order of priority:
1. Children with Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) which choose
Southborough High school will be allocated a place before other applicants are considered. In this way, the number of places to be offered will be reduced by the number of children with EHCP. Children with EHCP that name Southborough High school and who arrive outside the normal admission round will be admitted to the school even if the school is oversubscribed.
2. Places will be offered secondly to Looked After Children and previously looked after children. Applications made under this criterion must be accompanied by details of circumstance and professionally supported evidence (e.g. from a social worker).
3. Places will be offered next to children who have a brother or sister, including an adopted, half, step- or foster-brother or sister, living at the same address and attending Southborough High School at the proposed date of admission.
4. Places will then be offered in cases of exceptional family, social or medical need (which must be described on the application form and then be verified by a qualified health professional or social worker- for example a hospital consultant or senior Social worker) which makes the school concerned the most suitable one for the individual child.
5. The remaining places will be offered to children who live nearest to the school, as measured using a straight line. All distance will be measured from the child’s home to the nearest school entrance: either on Hook Road, or Kent Way. All distances will be measured using the Council’s computerised Geographical Information System.
NOTES
a. Distance will be used as a tiebreaker if there are more applicants than places available under each criterion 1-4 above. For applicants who live the same distance from the school, random selection by the drawing of lots is used as a final tie-breaker.
b. Where a parent applies for entry into the same year group for more than one child and it is not possible to offer places to all the siblings (adopted, half, step- or foster brother or sister, living at the same address) the children’s names will be added to waiting list in accordance with the published admissions criteria, in the same way as for other children.
c. Where there is one school place available and more than one child who is eligible for the place under the published admissions criteria, the parent will be asked whether or not she/he wishes to accept the available place.
d. The definition of looked after children and previously looked after children is as follows:
â— children who are in the care of a local authority, or being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989, at the time an application for a school is
made;
â—children who were previously looked after, but immediately after being in care became adopted from local authority care, or subject to a child arrangement order under the terms of the Children Act 1989, or special guardianship order. This provision includes children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. A child is regarded as having been in state care outside of England if they were in the care of, or were accommodated by, a public authority, a religious organisation, or any other provider of care whose sole or main purpose is to benefit society.
Late Applications
Late applications will be considered only after all applications received by the closing date have been considered.
WAITING LIST
For entry into Year 7 in September of any year, following coordination, the waiting list will automatically consist of the names of all unsuccessful applicants who have not had a higher preference offer and will be held in criteria order.
Parents can request to add names of children who have had a higher preference offer, or who did not originally name the school as a preference, to be added to the waiting list. These names will be added in criteria order and the waiting list will be held until July 2024. Parents will be asked at the end of the academic year if they wish their child to remain on the list.
How places were offered on 1 March for September entry
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Number of Applications | 421 | 443 | 460 | 461 | 420 | 441 |
| Looked after and previously looked after children (criterion 1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Siblings (criterion 2) | 22 | 20 | 24 | 20 | 22 | 14 |
| Family, Social, and Medical reasons (criterion 3) | 2 | 2 | 2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Distance (criterion 4) | 86 | 89 | 130 | 129 | 130 | 110 |
| Boys with EHCP | 8 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Number of appeals heard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of successful appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Distance from home to school of last children offered a place | 7.2km | 11km |
9.9km |
8.5km |
8.9km |
10.2km |
The information above is for guidance only. The number of applications received and the overall situation changes from year-to-year.
In Year Applications
All applications for admission to all year groups 7 to 11, must be made to Kingston Local Authority (LA) on their In-Year application form. If a parent wishes to apply for a place at this school, they must name the school as one of their preferences on the In-Year application form and submit this to Kingston School Admissions.
For entry into Years 7 to 11, the position of any applicant on any waiting list will be determined using the oversubscription criteria as outlined in the relevant sections above.
Admission to the Sixth Form
Any student thinking of applying to join the school’s Sixth Form should attend the Sixth Form Open Evening, which will be held in October 2020. An information booklet and application form will be loaded on to the school website immediately after the Open Evening.
All applicants, whether internal or external, should complete an application form and hand it in by the stated deadline (which will be the same deadline for all applicants) or apply via UCAS Progress online. External applicants should return their application form with a copy of their end of Year 10 report and communicate with the Sixth Form Administrator to schedule a tour of the school and interview with either the Head of Sixth Form or Assistant Head of Sixth Form.
Students are required to complete the predicted grade section of the application form and references may be requested for external candidates.
The current school completes the predicted grade form, and returns it to the Sixth Form Administrator at the School by the stated deadline.
Those applicants judged to be of the required standard will be made a conditional offer.
The option choices of all applicants judged to be of the required standard are inputted into the School’s timetabling process. If there are more applicants for a course than there are places then the choice of internal applicants will be processed first. The remaining places will be given to the best external applicants as judged by the grades on their end of Year 10 report and the School’s official predicted grade form.
Admissions Policy for admission to the school in September 2027
In-Year Admission into School
An in-year application is for the admission of a child at the normal point of entry submitted on or after the first day of the first school term of the admission year; or it is for the admission of a child to an age group other than the normal point of entry.
In-year admissions into all Kingston schools are coordinated by the local authority. Information on the coordination scheme is available on the Kingston Council website.
Applications should be made no earlier than one t1erm prior to hopeful entry, based on the modern six term year. Applicants may state up to four preferences.
Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their child’s date of birth if they have not previously made an application via the local authority. If the application is due to a house move, the applicant will need to provide evidence they are residing at the new address, such as a completion of sale document or a rental agreement, and evidence that the previous address is no longer available for them to live in. Further documents may be requested.
Applications will be processed and, where vacancies exist, a place will be offered at the highest preferred school possible.
If a place is not available at a preferred school then parents will be informed of their right of appeal. The child will automatically be placed on the preferred school(s) waiting list which will be prioritised in line with the over-subscription criteria, and re-ranked every time a new application is added.
Where no school place is available at a preferred school, and a child is currently without a school place within a reasonable distance, then the authority will, as a minimum, inform applicants of the availability of places at alternative schools. Where possible, the authority will offer a school alternative school place at the next nearest community or voluntary controlled school with a vacancy. A referral may be made under the Fair Access Protocol.
The guide which provides information for parents on how to make an In Year application is available on the Kingston Council website.
