Dudley LA operate the school’s admission policy on behalf of the school, full details of which, together with information about the arrangements for admission are set out on the Local Authority website –
Primary Reception Intake
Church-of-the-Ascension-CE-2025-26
Church-of-the-Ascension-CE-2024-25
In Year Admissions 2024-2025
The school admits children into its Reception classes in the September before a child’s fifth birthday. We admit up to forty five children into each year group and follow the Local Authority’s procedure for allocating school places.
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION CE PRIMARY SCHOOL ADMISSIONS POLICY FOR NORMAL AGE OF ENTRY IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places at our school i.e. receive more applications than can be accommodated.
a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order.
b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children with a “serious and ongoing medical condition” where Church of the Ascension CE Primary School is the most appropriate school to meet the condition. See notes below for clarification.
c) Third priority for admission shall be given to children who have a brother/sister, half-brother/sister (where the children share one common parent), or step-brother / step-sister, living at the same address and who will still be attending the Church of the Ascension CE Primary School in the academic year 2024/25.
d) Any places that remain available once the above applicants have been admitted will be filled according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a straight-line measurement in metres, from the home address to the main entrance of Church of the Ascension CE Primary School.