OFFERS

Parents must also complete a Local Authority (LA) preference form.
These are available from your child’s school or your home LA.

If a school is not named on your child’s LA form they cannot be offered a place.

After the test, candidates are ranked according to their test score.  Where children are equal on test score, Looked After Children (in Public Care) will be given priority and then those who live nearest to the school (according to the straight line distance between home and school).

The rankings for each King Edward VI Grammar School will be passed to Local Authorities who will allocate places.

Your home Local Authority will consider your application to each of the schools you have named on the preference form.  You may be able to name up to six schools.

Information on how places are allocated is given in your home LA booklet.  Please read the booklet very carefully.

All Local Authorities must now operate an equal preference system so, if your child meets the criteria for two or more schools, the LA will offer them a place at the school ranked highest on the LA form.  Therefore, if you put a grammar school first on your LA form, but your child is not successful in the entrance test, you will not put at risk the chance of them being offered a place at any other school you have listed.  Your child’s application for other schools will be treated in the same way as every other application.  For example, it will depend on the distance between your home and the school for most community schools.