Admission to the School


INITIAL ENTRY ARRANGEMENTS St John Baptist CiW High School admits children from Aberdare, the Cynon Valley, adjoining areas of Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough and nearer parts of the County Boroughs of Neath and Port Talbot, Merthyr Tydfi l, Caerphilly and the County of Powys.


The school is accepting 159 places in September 2021 based on Welsh Government standard admission number and school capactity. There are often more applications for admission than there have been places available in Year 7. Places, in these circumstances, are awarded by the Governors to applicants who meet the under mentioned categories, in the following order of priority:


1) Children who, and whose families, can demonstrate they are committed practising Anglicans (demonstrated by reference from Church) and are pupils at an Anglican Primary School;


2) Anglican children, as in criteria 1, who are pupils at a Community Primary School;


3) Other pupils at an Anglican Primary School;


4) Children who, and whose families, can demonstrate they are practising members of another Christian Church (demonstrated by reference from members of Cytun or the Evangelical Alliance);


5) Other pupils from non-Anglican church schools;


6) Children having a sibling, i.e. brother or sister or half-brother/sister, adopted or fostered already at the school (multiple births are included here);


7) Other pupils at a Community Primary School or home educated.


Clergy are advised that the defi nition of regular/ committed church attendance is a minimum of once every 2 weeks for a minimum of the past 6 months for entry to school in September 2020 and for the past 18 months for September 2021.


If the school is unable to allocate places to the whole of a certain category then the proximity test is applied to that particular category. Proximity is measured by local authority safe walking distance measure.


The school recognises the priority of providing an appropriate school place for a looked after child and is committed to work with the local authority and other agencies to ensure tha the needs of looked after children are met. Priority is given to looked after children.


In those cases where Church commitment is claimed, the Parish Clergy concerned are written to in order to support applications before they are determined. Vacancies are


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ST JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH IN WALES HIGH SCHOOL


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