Allocation of JuniorSchool(Year 3)places September 2012

Places at the Community Junior Schools in Brighton & Hove were allocated as set out in the tables below. The Governors of St Nicolas’ CE Junior School were able to offer places to childrenin priorities 1 – 6 of their admission priorities. Please refer to page61 of the School Admissions booklet for the Governor’s admission priorities. Please refer to pages 19-22 of the School Admissions booklet for the council’s admission priorities for the Community Schools.

The numbers given in the table below of children considered under ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ are those where the Local Authority agreed there were exceptional circumstances.

This factsheet only refers to on-time applications.

School / No of 1st preferences / No of 2nd preferences / No of 3rd preferences / Total no of preferences
Benfield Primary / 39 (39) / 37 (3) / 29 (2) / 105 (44)
Downs Junior / 132 (126) / 87 (2) / 34 (0) / 253 (128)
Hangleton Junior / 98 (95) / 18 (1) / 24 (0) / 140 (96)
Hertford Junior / 39 (39) / 26 (6) / 25 (0) / 90 (45)
Patcham Junior / 95 (95) / 5 (1) / 20 (0) / 120 (96)
Somerhill Junior / 129 (128) / 55 (0) / 52 (0) / 236 (128)
St Nicolas CE Junior / 58 (58) / 37 (4) / 28 (2) / 123 (64)
Stanford Junior / 94 (94) / 87 (1) / 58 (1) / 239 (96)
West Hove Junior / 138 (127) / 68 (1) / 72 (0) / 278 (128)

Numbers in brackets are the numbers of on-time applicants offered places at this school.

DownsJuniorSchool – 128 places

Downs admitted children from priorities 1-5. The furthest child offered a place in priority 5 lives 863.14metres from the school. Children from priorities 1,2, 3 and 4 who have not been offered a place at Downs have been offered a higher preference.

Priority / No of applications / No of places offered
1) Looked after children / 0 / 0
2) Exceptional reasons / 3 / 3
3) Sibling link / 38 / 38
4) Linked Infant School / 82 / 81
5) Other Children* / 130 / 6

* only 8 of these children were not offered this school or a higher preference school.

HangletonJuniorSchool– 96 places

Hangleton admitted children from priorities 1-5. The furthest child offered a place in priority 5 lives 858.33metres from the school. Children from priorities 1,2,3 and 4 who have not been offered a place at Hangleton have been offered a higher preference.

Priority / No of applications / No of places offered
1) Looked after children / 0 / 0
2) Exceptional reasons / 0 / 0
3) Sibling link / 33 / 33
4) Linked Infant School / 55 / 55
5) Other Children* / 52 / 8

* only 4 of these children were not offered this school or a higher preference school.

Patcham Junior School – 96 places

Patcham admitted children from priorities 1-5. The furthest child offered a place in priority 5 lives 1964.49 metres from the school. Children from priorities 1,2, 3 and 4 who have not been offered a place at Patcham have been offered a higher preference.

Priority / No of applications / No of places offered
1) Looked after children / 0 / 0
2) Exceptional reasons / 1 / 1
3) Sibling link / 31 / 31
4) Linked Infant / 58 / 58
5) Home to school distance / 30 / 6

* only 1 of these children were not offered this school or a higher preference school.

SomerhillJuniorSchool– 128 places

Somerhilladmitted children from priorities 1-5. The furthest child offered a place in priority 5 lives 1203.06 metres from the school. Children from priorities 1,2, 3 and 4 who have not been offered a place at Somerhill have been offered a higher preference.

Priority / No of applications / No of places offered
1) Looked after children / 1 / 1
2) Exceptional reasons / 5 / 5
3) Sibling link / 33 / 33
4) Linked Infant School / 80 / 80
5) Other Children* / 117 / 9

* only 5 of these children were not offered this school or a higher preference school.

StanfordJuniorSchool– 96 places

Stanford admitted children from priorities 1-5. The furthest child offered a place in priority 5 lives 3138.59metres from the school. Children from priorities 1,2, 3 and 4 who have not been offered a place at Stanford have been offered a higher preference.

Priority / No of applications / No of places offered
1) Looked after children / 0 / 0
2) Exceptional reasons / 0 / 0
3) Sibling link / 31 / 31
4) Linked Infant School / 59 / 58
5) Other Children* / 149 / 7

* all of these children were offered this school or a higher preference school.

WestHoveJuniorSchool – 128 places

West Hoveadmitted children from priorities 1-5. The furthest child offered a place in priority 5 lives 732.83metres from the school. Children from priorities 1,2, 3 and 4 who have not been offered a place at West Hove have been offered a higher preference.

Priority / No of applications / No of places offered
1) Looked after children / 1 / 1
2) Exceptional reasons / 1 / 1
3) Sibling link / 44 / 44
4) Linked Infant / 71 / 71
5) Home to school distance / 161 / 11

* only 15 of these children were not offered this school or a higher preference school.

All the schools below were able to offer places to all children in priorities 1-5. Children who have not been offered a place at one of these schools were offered a higher preference.

Benfield Primary School(junior intake)–90 places in total

HertfordJuniorSchool – 60 places in total

Please note that these schools do not necessarily have places remaining. Children who were not offered any of their preferences many have been offered places there. Places have also now been offered to late applicants.

If you require clarification on this factsheet or wish to know which junior schools have vacancies please contact the school admissions office on (01273) 293653 or . Please be aware that our telephone lines are expected to be very busy. If you send an email it will be responded to as soon as possible.

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