Admissions

Admissions Policies

2024-25 Admissions Policy
2025-26 Admissions Policy

• NYC – Determined Arrangements Notice – 2025/26
• NYC – Determined Secondary Admission Numbers 2023-2024
• Determined NYC Co-ordinated Admission Arrangements 2023-24

The Published Admission Number (PAN) is the number of pupils it is intended to admit into the first year group of school. This number is 150 places.

Admissions Consultation

Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is consulting on its admissions arrangements for the 2026-27 year of entry. The admissions consultation will be open from 14th October 2024 – 9th December 2024.

You can view a copy of our draft Admissions Policy here.
You can view an overview of changes here.

We would appreciate your feedback on the proposed admissions arrangements should you wish to provide any comments. Feedback can be provided via this form.

Primary School Students

Primary Schools will contact families of Year 5 children in June and provide you with information on how to apply for a secondary school place. In March of Year 6 you will be offered a place at a secondary school. At this point, George Pindar School will contact all families who have been offered a place with them for the following September.

A catchment area is an area around a single school. The catchment school is allocated by the local authority from the geographical area your address is in. George Pindar School usually feeds from a set catchment area that, as a general guide, includes children who live in areas served by the following schools:

• Braeburn Primary School
• Cayton Community Primary School
• Overdale Community Primary School
• Seamer & Irton Community Primary School
• Wheatcroft Community Primary School

Your catchment school is determined by your home address, rather than the primary school your child attends.  The LA school admissions team can advise you on the catchment school for your postal address.

In-year admissions

Local Authority’s Co-ordinated Admission Scheme

George Pindar School participates in the Local Authority’s Co-ordinated Admission Scheme for in-year admissions. If parents/carers wish to apply for a school place, applications can be made at: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/apply-place-primary-or-secondary-school

Full details of North Yorkshire Council’s in-year admissions process is available at: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/changing-schools-and-year-applications

The right to appeal

By law, if your child is refused a place at your preferred school, you have the right to appeal against that decision to an independent panel.

Further detail is available at: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/appeal-school-place

Admission for students with SEND

Please see our SEND page for more information.

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Hope Sentamu Learning Trust (HSLT) Admissions Arrangements

Following determination of arrangements, any objections to those arrangements must be made to the Schools Adjudicator. Objections to admission arrangements must be referred to the Schools Adjudicator by 15th May in the determination year.

Please follow this link to object to the schools adjudicator regarding a school’s admission arrangements: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/objection-to-school-admission-arrangements

Email: osa.team@schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk

Post: OSA, Bishopsgate House, Feethams, Darlington, DL1 5QE

You can object to the schools adjudicator because you consider a school’s admission arrangements:

• are unlawful
• do not comply with the school admissions code

If your concerns are about the admission arrangements for a year other than the 2024 to 2025 academic year, make it clear to which year’s arrangements you are referring.