Admissions

Admissions Policies

2022-23 Admissions Policy
2023-24 Admissions Policy
2024-25 Admissions Policy

NYCC – Determined Secondary Admission Numbers 2023-2024
Determined NYCC Co-ordinated Admission Arrangements

The Published Admission Number (PAN) is the number of pupils it is intended to admit into the first year group of school. This number for 2023/24 is 150 places.

In accordance with our statutory duty under The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements and co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulation 2012. North Yorkshire Council is consulting on proposed school admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools 2025/2026.

The consultation opens on 27 October 2023 and closes on 15 December 2023.  You may view this at www.northyorks.gov.uk/consultations   

If you wish to respond please email schoolorganisation@northyorks.gov.uk bearing in mind that this consultation ends on 15 December 2023.

Primary School Students

The Local Authority 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.

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

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 County 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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The Hope Sentamu Learning Trust (HSLT) Trust Board have determined their admissions arrangements for 2023 – 2024.

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 2023 to 2024 academic year, make it clear to which year’s arrangements you are referring.