Admissions Policy
As a voluntary controlled School, within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, the admissions’ policy is that directed and controlled by the Royal Borough as follows.
If there are more applications than places available, places will be allocated to pupils on the basis of priorities known as the ‘Admissions Criteria’ and first preference applications are considered before all others.
The admissions criteria for borough and voluntary controlled schools are given below. They are in order of priority.
A. Looked After Children (children in care of the Local Authority, Section 22 of the Children Act 1989).
B. Children who live in the ‘designated appropriate’ area of the school. Please note the designated area for Altwood School is now the whole of the Maidenhead area (maps in admissions’ booklet).
C. Children who have older brother(s) or sister(s) at the school, when the applicant would enter the school. This includes a half, step, or foster child permanently living in the same family unit at the same address.
D. Children who attend a primary school that is formally linked with the secondary school. In Windsor this means a first school that is linked with a middle school, or a middle school that is linked with an upper school. (Please check with your child’s current school).
Y. For Altwood School only: Children whose parents choose the school on denominational grounds.*
E. Individual preference for co-educational or single-sex educational reasons where the alternative in your local area is single sex or co-educational respectively.
F. All other applicants.
*Applicants under criterion ‘Y’ need a completed Supplementary Information Form (SIF). Please view the SIF download to the right hand side of this section, under 'documents. We also have included a hard copy in our school information pack.
Please give full reasons for your preference on the back of the application form as this ensures that your child is placed in the right admissions category in the event of the school is oversubscribed.
If a school does not have places for all the children in a particular category, places will then be allocated on the basis of where you live in relation to the school i.e. geographical proximity (measured as the straight line distance between home and school).
Application should be made in writing to the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead by 1 November 2010
The Altwood Church of England School standard number for Year 7 is 150.
Admissions to other year groups, apart from Year 7, will be subject to the standard number limitations and by discussion and agreement with the Headteacher.
