Admissions to South Norwood Primary School

South Norwood Primary School has a published admissions number of 60.
All places are allocated according to the admissions criteria below and distance (Category 5) is measured in a straight line from the applicants home address to the main school gate located in Crowther Road as before.

Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP)
The school has an ELP for children with moderate learning difficulties. Places are allocated by Croydon’s special education needs (SEN) team for children with EHCPs. Two pupils each year are allocated to the ELP by Croydon’s SEN team. This is included within the PAN of 60.

**You cannot gain a place in our ELP provision by applying via the mainstream. We currently have no spaces in our ELP.

Primary School Admissions 2024/2025

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For more information see our policies page.

In Year admissions

We have places in all year groups. In year admissions are handled by Croydon Council. www.croydon.gov.uk//school-admissions/admissions-infant-junior-and-primary-schools/step-by-step/primary-school-year-admissions-step-step

Appeals

You are able to appeal against the decision to not offer your child a place at South Norwood Primary School.

There are three grounds on which appeal at South Norwood Primary School may be considered. You will need to evidence the grounds you believe applies in your case on the appeal form (found here) and return to the school.

Reasons for appeal are as follows:

a) That the admission of my child would not breach the Infant class size limit.

b) That a place would have been offered if the admission arrangements had complied with admissions law or had been correctly and impartially applied. For your appeal to succeed on this ground, you will have to show that the normal admission arrangements were not properly followed and if they had, your child would have been offered a place.

c) That the decision not to admit your child was not one which a reasonable Admission Authority would make in the circumstances of the case.

Further information about appeals from the Department of Education can be found here – www.gov.uk/advice-for-parents-and-guardians-on-school-admission-appeals

Timetable

The trust board will set a timetable for organising and hearing appeals that:

• Includes a deadline for lodging appeals which allows appellants at least 20 school days from the date of notification that their application was unsuccessful to prepare and lodge their written appeal.
• Ensures that appellants receive at least 10 school days’ notice of their appeal hearing.
• Includes reasonable deadlines for appellants to submit additional evidence, for admission authorities to submit their evidence, and for the clerk to send appeal papers to the panel and parties.
• Ensures that decision letters are sent within 5 school days of the hearing wherever possible.