West Blatchington Primary and Nursery School

The arrangements for the admission of children to this school at age 4+ are made by Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC).  A detailed description of the arrangements is contained on the BHCC website: http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/children-and-education/school-admissions

Information can also be obtained from the School Admissions Team, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ (tel: 01273 293653) or via email on Schooladmissions@brighton-hove.gov.uk. Information is also available at the school.

However, parents/carers may find it helpful to know that, if there are insufficient places available to meet demand, BHCC will allocate places in accordance with the following list of priorities:

1. Children in the care of a local authority (looked after children) and 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 residence order or special guardianship order).
• In order to offer a place under this priority you will need to supply proof of your child's status. This could be a copy of the adoption certificate or order and a letter from the local authority that last looked after the child confirming that he / she was looked after immediately prior to that order being made.
• If you are not sure what to provide, please contact the school admissions team.

2. Compelling medical or other exceptional reasons to attend the school

3. Sibling link

4. Children transferring between a linked Infant and Junior school

5. Other children

Once all the children in priorities 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been offered places at a school, the remaining places (up to the published admission number) will be offered to other children.  If it should be necessary to decide between children within any of these priority groups, this will be done by giving the places to those children who live closest to the school.

The published admission number for 2023/24 is 30 pupils.

The number of students on roll as of January 2023 was 252.

Our preferences for 2022/23 were 35 x 1st choice, 2 x 2nd choice, 3 x 3rd choice. Additional children joined after the initial allocation of places in April 2020.