Admissions
ADMISSION TO JOHN CABOT ACADEMY
Parents of Year 6 applicants to John Cabot Academy should receive appointment letters by 1 December, for the 2012 admissions assessments. If you have not received an appointment by this date, please contact the Admissions Officer at the Academy. The assessments will take place on Friday 9 December and Saturday 10 December. John Cabot Academy is due to receive application data from the Local Authority on 22 November of all those who have named John Cabot as one of their preferences.
If you wish to apply for a place at John Cabot Academy, you are required to nominate us as one of your preferences on your home Local Authority common application form and send it to your home Local Authority, alternatively you can complete the common application form on your home Local Authority web site.
Please ensure you complete your list of school preferences in strict order of your personal preference.
John Cabot Academy recruits from the full range of abilities.
John Cabot Academy will consider all applications for places. Where fewer than the published admission number of 160 applications are received, John Cabot Academy will offer places to all who have applied.
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than 160, we will apply our over subscription criteria and applications will be considered in the order as described below.
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All students participate in two assessments:
A Non Verbal Reasoning assessment to determine ability. This ensures we always take consistently across the full ability range.
An Oral Assessment in order to offer 10% of places on the basis of technological aptitude.
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Children in Public Care will be allocated places. Students with a Statement of Special Educational Need, where John Cabot Academy is named on the statement, and students who have a physical or mental impairment, (that has a substantial and long term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day to day activities), requiring specific admission to John Cabot Academy will be allocated places.
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16 students (10%) with the highest technological aptitude score will be admitted on the basis of aptitude in technology.
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The Non Verbal Reasoning assessment places students into one of five ability bands. The following criteria is applied to the remaining places, in each of the five ability bands.
- Places are allocated to siblings of students at the Academy, from each ability band .
If the number of applicants with a sibling exceeds the number of places available in a band, random allocation would be used to determine places.
- The remaining places are offered by a random allocation. 80% of the remaining places will be allocated to students who live within Zone A, defined as a radius of four miles centred on the Academy, and 20% of places are allocated to students who live within Zone B, (outside the four mile radius of Zone A).
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