Admissions

The standard intake number at 11+ in 2013 is planned to be 210. Students of all abilities are admitted to this 11‑19 mixed comprehensive school on the basis of parental preference, except when the number of applications exceeds the standard intake number of the school. In that case children will be given preference if parents can show one or more of the following, in order of priority:

1. Looked After Children

2. Where there are professionally supported medical reasons or exceptional social reasons.

3. Where there will be an older brother or sister at the school at the time of the younger child’s admission.

4. Proximity to the school from the pupil’s home address, the distance measured in a straight line to the main entrance of the existing school building, with those living closer to the school receiving the higher priority. The address to be used in the initial allocation of places will be the address on the 31st October 2011 unless a subsequent move has been accepted for allocation purposes.

 
Where two or more applicants share a priority for a place, the child allocated will be determined by the drawing of lots.
 
School places available in the current school year from September 2011 are:
 

School

Published Number

 Actual Number

Year 7

210

 210

Year 8

210

 210

Year 9

180

 180

Year 10

180

 180

Year 11

180

 180
 
In recent years, and as a result of the increasing popularity of our school, the catchment area has decreased. Below is a list of our main feeder primary schools for entry in September 2011. The table also indicates the number of students from each of the feeder primaries.
 

School
Number of students
Bandon Hill
22
Barrow Hedges
9
High View
14
Holy Trinity
21
Stanley Park Junior
51

On entry into Stanley Park High each student will be placed into one of our ‘Small-Schools’ – Performance, Trade and World. Students will be placed in these ‘Small Schools’ according to information from the Primary schools. We will ensure that there is an equal number in terms of boy/girl and that the overall ability profile is the same in each school. Students will not be placed in a particular ‘Small School’ because they are known to have a particular ability, gift or talent. For example, a student that is good at music will not necessarily be placed in Performance. In years 7 and 8 students will spend virtually all of their time in these ‘Small-Schools’, with a maximum of 450 other students and it will be very much regarded as their home base.
 
Our fourth ‘Small School’, Horizon, will coordinate support for all students with Special Educational Needs. An important part of Horizon are our two Opportunity Bases, Aqua and Ignis, for students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Admission into each of these Opportunity Bases is coordinated by the Special Educational Needs Section of the Local Education Authority.