School admissions data

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Willowcroft Community School - 2025/26 - Primary
Starting Reception year group in Primary or Infant School - 2025/26 academic year ( places allocated on 16th April 2025 ) Admission Number : 60
Preferences
Total number of preferences for places 110
First Preferences requested 46
First Preferences offered (percentage offered) 46 offered (100%)
Second Preferences requested 20
Second Preferences considered (first preference not offered) 4
Second Preferences offered (percentage offered) 4 offered (100%)
Third Preferences requested 24
Third Preferences considered (first and second preferences not offered) 4
Third Preferences offered (percentage offered) 4 offered (100%)
Fourth Preferences requested 19
Fourth Preferences considered (higher preference not offered) 2
Fourth Preferences offered (percentage offered) 2 offered (100%)
Fifth Preferences requested 1
Fifth Preferences considered (higher preference not offered) 0
Fifth Preferences offered (percentage offered) 0 offered (0%)
Policy
The Governors or Trust decide the admissions criteria as shown below (in descending order of priority) together with the number of places offered under that criterion:
Places Offered
Criterion Number of Places
Children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan that names the school 0
1. Children who are looked after by a local authority within the meaning of Part 1 of the Children and Families Act 2014 at the time of their application and previously looked after children (including those who appear to this Admissions Authority to have been in state care outside England and ceased to be in state care having been adopted) 2
2. Disabled children who need to be admitted to a school on the grounds of physical accessibilit 0
3. Children of staff 2
4. Children, in catchment area, who have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 9
5. Children who live in the school's designated area 23
6. Children living outside the designated area who have a brother or sister on roll at the time of application who will still be attending at the time of entry 7
7. Those children who live closest to the school 13
Total 56
Last Place Offered
7. Those children who live closest to the school 5.127 miles
Home to school distances measured using Shortest Designated Route
Summary
Number of places available 4