Admissions
Admissions Policy Consultation
Schools must consult every 7 years on their Admissions Policy regardless of whether any changes occur or not.
Our 6 weeks consultation will open on 25 November 2024 and close on 17 January 2025.
There are no changes to our previous admission policy, and the consultation is for admissions in 2026-2027.
You can find a copy of our admission policy for 2026-2027 below.
How can you respond to the consultation?
We welcome feedback and consultation from everyone, and this can be given in either of the following ways –
- Email the Academy Office, for the attention of Kim Fletcher at enquiries@carltonroadacademy.net
- Letter for the attention of
Kim Fletcher
Senior Administrator,
Carlton Road Academy,
Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 8QX
On conclusion of the consultation, all responses received will be collated and presented to the Voyage Education Partnership Trust Board in February 2025 for full consideration. The Trust (as the admissions authority) will then determine Carlton Road Academy’s final admission arrangements for 2026-2027.
Our current admissions criteria can be read in full in our policies below, which cover the statutory expectations.
Children formally enter the Academy in the September of the year in which they turn five (although many attend our nursery beforehand). All applications for places will be granted up to the published admissions number (PAN) set for each year group. After the admission of pupils with Educational Health Care Plans, where the Academy is recorded in the plan, we will use the following factors in priority order to decide which students will be given places, should demand exceed the number of places available:
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Children who are Looked After and all previously Looked After children.
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Children with a brother or sister at the Academy who will still be attending when the child is due to start or who are on roll at the Academy at the time of application. NB Siblings for the purpose of the admissions code are pupils of compulsory school age i.e. those who have applied via the local authority and have been allocated a place in year Reception or above.
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Proximity to the Academy (according to the child’s main residence).
If the proximity criterion is not sufficient to distinguish between two or more applicants for the last remaining place then a lottery will be drawn by an independent person, not employed by the Academy or working in the Children’s Services Department at the Local Authority.
The ‘find you nearest school’ tool is now available on the LCC website:
https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/find-nearest-school
Admissions and appeals:
https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions
CRA Admissions Policy 2024/2025
CRA Admissions Policy 2025/2026
OAA Appeal Form
