Simon Langton boys

[U400JB9]

Sorry.
He lived outside the distance the last boy offered a place lived.

SLBs had a bizarre system this year....within 8 miles and with a score of 385 you got an offer, outside that cut off it was a higher score. Seems the system left them with empty places.

[fatbananas]

Sorry for dredging up an old thread, but I've just been looking at the Simon Langton website. It's very flash but very hard to find ones way about in it! Anyway, when I found it's admission's page, this quote was on it:

Parents who live out of the county must apply through their home Local Authority.

Does that mean that you stand a chance of getting into Simon Langton even if you live outside the county? I had thought they had a 9 mile admissions criteria? Have they scrapped this? Does anyone have any up-to-date information?

Sorry for all the questions. Now it's my DC's run up to the 11+, I'm taking a look at all the possible options!

[Kentishmaid]

Simon Langton boys has the following admissions criteria:

If the number of preferences for the school is more than the number of places available, places will be allocated in
the following priority order –

1) Boys in Local Authority Care – a boy under the age of 18 years for whom the Local Authority provides
accommodation by agreement with his parents/carers (Section 22 of the Children Act 1989) or who
ceased to be so because he was adopted or who is subject of a care order under Part IV of the Act;

2) Boys with a combined Kent Test score of 385 or more, in order of:

a. Boys whose parents can prove that attendance at the school is essential based on reasons of Health or
Special Access.

Health and Special Access Reasons will be applied in accordance with the school’s legal obligations,
in particular those under the Equality Act 2010. Priority will be given to boys whose health or
physical impairment means they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular
school. Equally this priority will apply to boys whose parents’/guardians’ physical or mental health
or social needs mean that they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school.
Such claims must be supported with written evidence from an appropriately qualified medical or
other practitioner. The evidence must demonstrate a special connection between the boy’s needs and
the school.
b. Boys with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of entry. In this context brother or sister
means children who live as brother or sister in the same house, including natural brothers and sisters,
adopted siblings, stepbrothers or sisters and foster brothers and sisters.

3) Boys living within a 9 mile radius of the school, with a combined Kent Test score of 385 or more, in
order of:

a. Proximity to the boy’s home, with those living nearer being given higher priority.

4) Other qualifying boys (i.e. those who achieve the required standard for selective education through the
Kent assessment procedure), in order of:

a. Boys whose parents can prove that attendance at the school is essential based on reasons of Health or
Special Access.

Health and Special Access Reasons will be applied in accordance with the school’s legal obligations,
in particular those under the Equality Act 2010. Priority will be given to boys whose health or
physical impairment means they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular
school. Equally this priority will apply to boys whose parents’/guardians’ physical or mental health
or social needs mean that they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school.
Such claims must be supported with written evidence from an appropriately qualified medical or
other practitioner. The evidence must demonstrate a special connection between the boy’s needs and
the school.

b. Boys with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of entry. In this context brother or sister
means children who live as brother or sister in the same house, including natural brothers and sisters,
adopted siblings, stepbrothers or sisters and foster brothers and sisters.

c. Proximity to the boy’s home, with those living nearer being given higher priority

Note:

The school uses measurements provided by the Local Authority and the distance is measured between a
boy’s permanent home address and the school in a straight line using Ordnance Survey address point data.
Distances are measured from a point defined as within the school as specified by Ordnance Survey. The
same address point on the school site is used for everybody.

So you would be very unlikely to get a place from out of county, unless you had a sibling there.