School admission arrangements

Admission arrangements for community schools in harrow for 2026-2027

Harrow Council is not proposing any changes to the admission arrangements for community schools for 2026/27. The dates within the co-ordination schemes have been updated where required.

The Director of Children’s Services will determine the admission arrangements by 28 February 2025.

Proposed admission arrangements for academy schools, free schools and voluntary aided schools in Harrow for september 2026-2027

Academy Schools, Free Schools and Voluntary Aided (faith schools), are their own admission authority. This means that they have their own individual admission arrangements. Information on proposed admission arrangements for these schools will be available on the schools websites directly.

The schools below are consulting on changing their admission arrangements for 2026-27:

• St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School
• St John Fisher Catholic Primary School
• Saint Jérome Church of England Bilingual School
• Heathland Whitefriars Federation

St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School

Roxborough Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, HA1 3BE

Please note that the School proposes the following changes:

Admissions policy

• Addition of category six to the oversubscription criteria to include Non-Catholic children who have a sibling at school at the time of admission (page 3).
• Addition of category seven to the oversubscription criteria to include Non-Catholic children whose parent is a member of staff who has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time of application and will continue to be employed at the school at the point of admission or the member of staff has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. (page 3).
• Addition of a provision within all categories to include children of members of staff who have been employed at the school for two or more years at the time of application and will continue to be employed at the school at the point of admission or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. (page 3).
• Updated definition of ‘home address’ (page 7).
• Removal of the wording “Governing Body” and replacing with “Admission Authority”.

Supplementary Information Form

• Addition of the question “email address”.
• Addition of the question “sibling name”  

The consultation period is from Tuesday 5 November 2024 to Wednesday 18 December 2024. Please address any comments to the Admissions Committee at the School address or by email to: office@st-anselms.org

The closing date to submit a comment is 18 December 2024

St John Fisher Catholic Primary School

Melrose Road, Pinner, HA5 5RA

Please note that the School proposes the following changes:

Admissions and Oversubscription Criteria

Item 8 has been moved up to Item 6.

Item 7 ‘children of’ has been removed.

An additional point (iii) has been added under:

Within each of the categories listed above, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.

iii Children of members of staff who have been employed at the school for two or more years at the time of application and will continued to be employed at the school at the point of admission or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.

Reception Class Application 2026/2027

The following text in second paragraph deleted:

The LGB will be unable to consider your application fully, and this may affect your child’s chance of being offered a place. Applications received after the closing date will be dealt with after the initial allocation process has been completed.

Replaced with:

Together with supporting documentation, your child may not be placed in criteria 1 to 5 or 7 to 9 and this may affect your child’s chance of being offered a place

Supplementary Information Form

Religion Details wording changed to: Religion of Child

Removed

1. Religion of child: (Please tick)
2. Catholic 
3. Other Christian (name of denomination e.g. Methodist)
4. Other faith

Replaced with

Criteria Tick Box Evidence - see notes on the next page

1. Catholic
2. Catechumen
3. Member of an Eastern Christian Church
4. Member of other Christian Church
5. Member of other faith

Under ‘Where Appropriate:

Removed

Church you currently attend:

Added

Notes

1) Evidence of Catholic Baptism

If application is being made for a place at the school for a Catholic child evidence of Catholic baptism or reception into the Church is required. A certificate of baptism or certificate of reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church should be provided at the same time as this form is returned to the school.

[The Admission Authority may request additional supporting evidence if the written documents that are provided do not clarify the fact that the child was baptised or received into the Catholic Church, e.g. where the name and address of the Church is not on the certificate or where the name of the Church does not state whether it is a Catholic Church or not. Those who have difficulty obtaining written evidence of baptism or reception into the

Church should contact their Parish Priest.]

2) Evidence for Catechumens

If application is being made for a place at the school for a catechumen evidence of their being a member of the catechumenate of a Catholic Church will be required. A certificate of reception into the order of catechumens should be provided at the same time as this form is returned to the school.

3) Evidence of Membership of an Eastern Christian Church

If application is being made for a place at the school for a member of an Eastern Christian Church, including Orthodox Churches, evidence of membership will be required. A certificate of baptism 24 or reception from the authorities of that Church should be provided at the same time as this form is returned to the school.

4) and 5) Evidence for Other Christian Denominations and Other Faiths

If application is being made for a place at the school as a member of another Christian denomination or another faith a letter confirming membership of that Christian denomination or faith, signed by the appropriate minister of religion or faith leader, as and when required. The letter should be provided at the same time as this form is returned to the school.

The consultation period is from Tuesday 5 November 2024 to Wednesday 18 December 2024. Please address any comments to the Admissions Committee at the School address or by email to: office@st-johnfisher.harrow.sch.uk. 

The closing date to submit a comment is 18 December 2024.

Saint Jérome Church of England Bilingual School 

120-138 Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2DJ.

The Governing Body of Saint Jérôme School proposes the following changes:

Oversubscription Criteria 

Current Criterion 1 - Unchanged 
Current Criterion 2 - Delete (relates to the children of the two founders) 
Revised Criterion 3 - Unchanged – moves to criterion 2 
Revised Criterion 4 - Unchanged – moved to criterion 3

The oversubscription criteria changes relate to the (new) criteria 4 & 5 

New Criterion 4. : 50% of the remaining applicants living in postcodes HA1, HA2, HA3, HA5 or HA7 will be offered a place by random allocation

New Criterion 5. : The remaining places will be designated as Open places and allocated by distance.

Footnote: 

1. School Admissions Code date updated to September 2021
5. Random allocation description added

Foundation Places:     

Final sentence - wording added: 'Random allocation criterion 4 and then'

Random Allocation - New wording added

'After allocation of places in criterion 1-3, 50% of the remaining places will be allocated to applicants living in postcodes HA1, HA2, HA3, HA5 or HA7 by random allocation.

In the event of remaining places being an odd number, one more place will be allocated under the 50% random allocation rather than nearest distance., ie. if remaining places equalled 27, 14 would be considered for Random Allocation criterion 4 and 13 for Open Place criterion 5. 

The random allocation process is determined independently of the school by the local authority, Harrow Council’s admissions software. A fresh round of random allocation is used each time a child is to be offered a place from a waiting list.'

Tie-breaker 

First sentence - wording removed '4' so now reads 'within the oversubscription criteria 3 and 5'

Out of Year Process

Point 2. Wording added to explain where to obtain Deferral Entry Request Application Form: 'through Harrow Council'

Waiting List 

Additional wording / a paragraph added: 'Waiting lists will be closed on the last day of term each year and will not roll over. If you wish your child to remain on the waiting list into the new academic year you will need to submit a new in year application. It is your responsibility to reapply.'

Withdrawal of Places 

Additional wording added after the first sentence: 'Where an offer is withdrawn on the basis of misleading information provided by the parent, the application must be considered afresh, and a right of appeal offered if an offer is refused.

The consultation period is from Monday 9 December 2024 to Tuesday 21 January 2025.

Please address any comments to the Admissions Committee at the School address or by email to office@stjeromebilingual.org 

Heathland Whitefriars Federation 

Whitefriars Avenue, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 5RQ

Please be advised of the proposed change regarding Whitefriars School. 

It is proposed to replace the separate sixth form admissions policy with a paragraph within the main Heathland Whitefriars admissions policy. This adjustment aligns Whitefriars with other sixth forms in Harrow, as it is part of the Harrow Collegiate. 

This document is now out for consultation. The consultation opened on 13 December 2024 and will run until Friday 24 January 2025. 

If you have any comments on the proposed arrangements please email admissions@heathland.harrow.sch.uk  or admissions@whitefriars.harrow.sch.uk  by Friday 24 January 2025.