Admissions

As with all Local Authority Maintained Schools, our admissions are controlled and managed by our local authority. Bracknell Forest admissions department provide information relating to admissions to primary school, both when a child starts their education journey and also for any in-year transfers.

We welcome visits from any families considering our school for their child. However, we are not able to provide information about available spaces or waiting lists as this information is held centrally at Admissions.

All the necessary information can be found by clicking on the link below. However, the specific admissions criteria for our school are detailed here:

Crowthorne C of E Primary School 

Children with an Education Health and Care Plan that names the school must, by law, be admitted to the school.

After this requirement has been satisfied the following rules will apply:

(A) Looked After Children and all previously looked after children. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order) immediately following having been looked after. This also includes those children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted10

(B) Children who have either medical or social grounds for admission to a particular school. This evidence must set out the particular reason why the school in question is the only suitable school and the difficulties caused if the child had to attend another school. The LA’s decision in these matters is final.

(C) Children of staff at a particular school. 1. Where a member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made and/or 2. the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is demonstrable skill shortage.

(D) Children who live in the designated area of the school and who have a sibling who will still be attending the school at the time of the child’s admission and whose parent(s) meet the denominational criterion.

(E) Children who live in the designated area of the school and who have a sibling who will still be attending the school at the time of the child’s admission

(F) Children who live in the designated area of the school and whose parent(s) meet the denominational criterion.

(G) Children who live in the designated area of the school.

(H) Children who do not live in the designated area of the school but who have a sibling who will still be attending the school at the time of the child’s admission and whose parent(s) meet the denominational criterion.

(I) Children who do not live in the designated area of the school but who have a sibling who will still be attending the school at the time of the child’s admission

(J) Children who do not live in the designated area of the school but whose parents meet the denominational criterion

(K) All other children

This is taken from the following Bracknell Forest document: https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-09/the-guide-to-primary-education-2025-to-2026.pdf