{"id":6350,"date":"2017-11-01T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/educationandfamilies\/?page_id=6350"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:43:09","slug":"school-admission-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-admissions\/arrangements-and-policies\/school-admission-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"School Admission Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are responsible for coordinating applications for admission to all state-funded schools in its area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/admissions\">Find out more information about the process and how it works<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page provides links to admissions policies and arrangements and coordination schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Devon\u2019s admission arrangements comprise its co-ordinated admissions schemes, In-Year Fair Access Protocol and the admissions policies of each community and voluntary controlled school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition are the admissions policies of individual foundation, voluntary aided schools, academies and free schools. You will find links to them all from this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Normal round and in-year coordinated admissions scheme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These are Devon County Council&#8217;s schemes to coordinate applications at the main admission intake points into any state-funded mainstream school and applications at other times into Devon County Council area state-funded mainstream schools. There is one normal round and one in-year scheme for each academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please follow the link below to view the normal round admissions schemes for 2025\/26, 2026\/27 and 2027\/28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:f:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EnCImpYH0WZPhskfrEwmKxQBI15J2DDxhS183IJJNiVESQ?e=nSUuPL\" rel=\"noopener\">Co-ordinated admissions schemes &#8211; normal round and in-year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>During consultation periods, the folder will contain the schemes proposed by Devon County Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For the in-year and the normal round admissions schemes in 2028\/29, a consultation will take place between 13 November 2026 and 15 January 2027.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fair Access Protocol<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/devon.cc\/lapolicies\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon In-Year Fair Access Protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All local authorities are required to operate a fair access protocol, a policy to ensure that children who are at risk of not accessing suitable education are allocated a place at a local school. This applies to in-year admissions, for children who meet certain published criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Admissions policies for each school in Devon (including some academies in BCP, Cornwall)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/devon.cc\/schoolpolicy\" rel=\"noopener\">this link to view the admissions policies and supplementary information forms<\/a> for every state-funded mainstream school in the Devon County Council area and a number of academies in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Pool (BCP), Cornwall, Dorset, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay. They are organised in separate folders for each academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2025\/26 admissions policies for individual schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026\/27 admissions policies for individual schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2027\/28 admissions policies for individual schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2028\/29 \u2013 during consultation, the folder will contain the policies that have been proposed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The next consultation will take place between 13 November 2026 and 15 January 2027. Some policies may open for consultation until 31 January 2027.sions policies for individual schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supplementary information forms for schools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2025\/26 SIFS and other school forms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026\/27 SIFS and other school forms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2027\/28 SIFs and other school forms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Published admission numbers for each school in Devon (including some academies in BCP, Cornwall, Dorset, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please follow the link below in order to view the published admission numbers for all of the state-funded maintained schools in Devon (and those academies in BCP, Cornwall, Dorset, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay supported by the Devon Admissions Service).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/devon.cc\/schoollist\" rel=\"noopener\">Published admission numbers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catchment (or designated) areas for schools in Devon,and those academies in BCP, Cornwall, Dorset, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay supported by the Devon Admissions Service<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-admissions\/school-designated-areas\">School designated (catchment) areas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determined arrangements and policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":65432,"parent":66545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6350","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 12:05:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73488,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6350\/revisions\/73488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}