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How do you decide when a community or voluntary-controlled school is full?

The Government has introduced a different way of assessing how many pupils can go to a particular school. This is called the 'net capacity assessment'.
This assessment will apply to all mainstream community and voluntary-aided schools and will give an admission number to tell us how many pupils can go to a school.
If a school feel they can take more pupils without affecting the quality of the education they provide, they can do this and we will publish the higher number. However, if the school feels the number is too high, we must publish the lower number and give our reasons.
You can object to the lower number by contacting the School Adjudicator. You can get more details of how to do this by phoning the Admissions Officer on (01642) 526605.
If a school has taken pupils up to the admission number, they can only take more pupils in exceptional circumstances. Exceptional circumstances would include situations such as
children in families escaping domestic violence, or a child who uses a wheelchair and needs an accessible school. This does not affect your right to appeal.
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