Admissions to Raglan Junior School
We currently have waiting lists in every year group. Applications are kept on file in the School Office and ranked according to the admissions criteria below.
You can join our waiting list by completing this form. Once you complete the form, we will complete a distance check with the local authority and when a place becomes available, we will offer you a conditional place until a full registration form is completed and proof of address is checked.
We welcome and encourage visits to the school. You may request a visit by calling the office or completing our online vist request form: Click here
The Enfield Schools Admissions Service (ESAS) is responsible for co-ordinating the allocation of school places in Enfield to make sure that as many children as possible get places at schools of their parents’ preference.
The ESAS booklet ‘Applying for a Primary School in Enfield, Information for Parents’ provides full details of the admissions procedure that applies to all Enfield primary schools, including the Raglan Junior School. Please download it and read it carefully:
Applying for a Primary School in Enfield, Information for Parents | PDF | 1.5Mb
The booklet is also available from the Primary School Places page on the Enfield Council website, which provides further information about primary school place allocation in Enfield.
Make sure you provide proof of your child’s address (council tax and utility bills) and date of birth with your borough form.
Admissions to Primary School Criteria
Here is the extract from the Applying for a Primary School in Enfield, Information for Parents booklet detailing criteria for primary schools admission:
The following criteria are used to decide which children should be offered places when there are more children wanting to go to the school than there are places available. The criteria are in order of priority.
a) Children in public care (looked after children).
b) Children for whom a particular school is appropriate on exceptional medical grounds. Such applications will be considered under this criterion only if they are supported by an attached medical statement from a doctor. This must demonstrate that there is a very specific connection between the child’s medical need and the school requested.
c) Children with a brother or sister who will be attending the school or linked junior school at the time of proposed admission. The children concerned must be living at the same address.
d) Children genuinely resident within the school’s designated priority zone.
e) Children living nearest to the school measured as the crow flies, that is, in a straight line from the child’s home to the main entrance of the school. (Travel by private car or public transport is not taken into account).
f) When it is not possible to admit all applicants to a particular school within any criterion, priority will be given to those living near the school measured as in ‘e’ above.
g) The Local Authority defines siblings as a brother or sister living at the same address on the date when the applicant would be admitted. The term ‘sibling’ means a full, step, half, adopted of fostered brother or sister, but not cousins.
h) The Local Authority may exceptionally direct schools to admit children in excess of the admission number or above other children on a shool’s reserve list, in order to fulfil its statutory responsibilities or to comply with decisions taken by the Local Authority’s Primary Inclusion Panel.
Please note:
i) Children who have a Statement of Special Education Needs will be offered a place at a school if it is named in their Statement in accordance with the Education Act 1996 and the Special Education Needs Code Practice.
ii) In the case of infant to junior school transfer, priority is automatically given to children who are registered pupils at the link infant school before any other children are considered for admission in accordance with the criteria;
iii) Tottenhall Infants School, Tottenhall Road, N13 is a Community Infant School and is the feeder school for St Michael-at-Bowes C.E. Junior School, Tottenhall Road, N13. St Michael-at-Bowes C.E. Junior School is a Voluntary Aided School. There is no designated linked Community Junior School to Tottenhall Infants School. St Michael-at-Bowes C.E. Junior School has its own criteria for admission. A child attending Tottenhall Infants School is not guaranteed a place at St. Michael-at- Bowes Junior School. Therefore,
a) if a child is not offered a place at St. Michael-at-Bowes Junior School, or
b) a place is not wanted at St. Michael-at-Bowes Junior School, a place will be offered to the child at the nearest school with a vacancy.
Unfortunately, there have been some cases where parents have been tempted to supply false or inappropriate information to try and get a place at a particular school, for example, by giving the address of a relative instead of the home address. Information supplied by parents is checked. If it is found that false information has been provided and a place has been obtained because of this, the place is likely to be withdrawn.