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CHOOSING & APPLYING


...Applying for a school place in England


STATE EDUCATION If a family is repatriating to the UK or moving there for an extended assignment, the state-school system is likely to be very attractive; it’s free, and children will have the benefit of making local friends and immersing themselves in British culture.


In most parts of England, children must start school


full time from the September after their fourth birthday, moving to secondary education in the September following their 11th birthday. While they may leave school on the last Friday in June provided they will be 16 by the end of that year’s summer holiday, they must stay in some form of education or training until their 18th birthday. This may be in a school or college, or it can be work based. The UK’s state-school system can seem impossibly


confusing at first glance. “Parents have to struggle through a plethora of bureaucracy and differing local practice if they are going to find a suitable school place for a son or daughter,” says Sarah Teasdale, of Educatus, an education consultancy that helps place children in schools. As many companies are gradually removing school fees from their relocation packages, Ms Teasdale explains that state schools are increasingly the route for many relocating families. “About 60–70 per cent of what we do is around State placements,” she says. “Companies are moving families at any time of the year and, without our help most families would have no choice at all over schools and risk having to accept council offers with schools that may not be the best.


“We help them navigate the system and work out where the availability is around the new property, so that we can get the best result for the family.”


There are a number of different types of state-funded school, such as academies, free schools, grammar schools and maintained boarding schools. Each will have its own published admissions criteria, which should be scrutinised, as the application process for state schools varies widely across the country.


Faith schools are permitted to use faith-based criteria in order to give higher priority in admissions to children who are members of, or who practise, their faith or denomination. This only applies if a school is oversubscribed. Admissions vary from county to county. In some


cases they are handled by the local council and in others responsibility is deferred to the schools themselves.


GRAMMAR SCHOOLS Things are even more complicated when it comes to grammar schools. Only available in certain parts of the country, they select their pupils on the basis of performance in the 11-plus exam, which pupils can take in areas that support grammar schools.


Some grammar schools have a particular catchment area (the geographical area from which pupils are drawn), and some are what are known as ‘super-selectives’, which means that they take applications from pupils with the highest scores in the 11-plus test, regardless of location. Find out more in England’s grammar school system


Above: Padworth College Right: St Mary's Calne


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