Applying for a place at Aldercar High School

A copy of our Admissions Policy can be found in the Policies section of the website.

EMBARK School Admissions Arrangements 2025 – 2026

Oversubscription Criteria

Where the school has too many applications, places will be allocated in the following order:

  1. Children in public care.
  2. Children who are both living in the normal area served by the school and have brother(s) and/or sister(s) attending the school at the time of the admission, who have expressed a preference to attend the school
  3. Other children living in the normal area served by the school at the time of the admission, who have expressed a preference to attend the school, with those living nearest the school, measured by straight line from the entrance of the child’s home to entrance of the school’s main administrative building, being accorded highest priority.
  4. Children living outside the normal area served by the school who have brother(s) and/or sister(s) attending the school at the time of admission       and who have expressed a preference to attend the school, with those living nearest the normal area boundary, measured as a straight line from the entrance to the child’s home to the nearest point of the school boundary, being accorded the highest priority.
  5. Children living outside the normal area served by the school who have expressed a preference to attend the school, with those living nearest the normal area boundary, measured as a straight line from the entrance to the child’s home to the nearest point of the school boundary, being accorded the highest priority.