The Latymer School

The Latymer School Admission Procedure

Open Evenings

There will be meetings at which the Headteacher will talk to parents and guardians about the school and its admission arrangements. Parents are asked NOT to bring children to these talks and there will be no opportunity to view the school on these evenings. Tours of the school for parents and children, led by members of the Sixth Form, will be offered on the dates listed below. Limited car parking will be available at the rear of school. Please enter via the North Gate, the South Gate will be exit only.

Registration Forms

These will be available on all of the Open Evenings and photographic identification is required for those who come to sit tests. Forms for September entry to Year 7 should be submitted to the school by 4.00 p.m. on the dates specified in the table above. Parents should also name The Latymer School on the Common Application Form for secondary school places, for whichever Borough you live in. This form must be returned to your own Local Authority. If you do not name The Latymer School on your Common Application Form we will be unable to process your application.

Admission Criteria

Only girls and boys who are deemed capable of following an education leading to the higher grades of GCSE in a full range of National Curriculum subjects are eligible to be considered for admission to the school. The Governors will judge whether a candidate fulfils these requirements by reference to tests to be taken at the school. Please Note: The school will be oversubscribed once more than 180 candidates score at least 70 out of 80 on the Non Verbal Reasoning (NVR) test.

Over-subscription

Where the number of candidates for admission exceeds the number of places available the Governors will allocate places in the following order of priority:

1. Applicants who are relevant looked after children. [See footnote 1]
2. Those who live in the following postcode areas: [See footnote 2]
   E2, E4, E5, E8, E9, E17
   EN1, EN2, EN3, EN4, EN5 Sectors 1, 2, 4, 5, EN8 Sectors 7, 8, 9
   N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N9, N10, N11, N12, N13, N14, N15, N16, N17, N18, N19, N20, N21, N22
3. A maximum of 20 students who show exceptional musical talent and achievement provided that, on the evidence shown by achievement in the entrance tests, they are also capable of maintaining the academic progress expected of the rest of the Latymer intake; evidence of exceptional musical talent on any instrument or instruments (including voice) is accepted. As a guideline a pupil should have achieved at least Grade 5 distinction level, but this will depend on instrument as well as previous opportunity and experience. Consideration will be given to candidates without that level of qualification but who otherwise show evidence of exceptional musical talent and achievement. Candidates may be asked to attend auditions
4. The 160 candidates who, on evidence of tests show the highest level of academic potential.
5. In either of the categories 3 and 4 above, where two or more candidates have the same total score the following order of priority will be applied.
   1. Test score in first round test taken by the applicants
   2. Test score in second round tests taken by the top 500 in first round test

Footnote 1: "Relevant looked after child" means a child who is looked after by a local authority in accordance with section 22 of the Children Act 1989 at the time an application for his/her admission to the school is made, and who the local authority has confirmed will still be looked after at the time when he/she is admitted to the school.

Footnote 2: The order of this list is alphabetical. There is no preference order within it.

Tests

All eligible candidates for admission to Year 7 in September will be required to take a NVR Test at the school in the half-term holiday in October at Year 6. During the tests, the Headteacher will talk to parents/guardians regarding the admission process.

Candidates, who achieve the required level on the NVR Test, will be asked to take further tests in Literacy and Mathematics. As soon as possible after the NVR Test, parents will be advised if their child is to take these tests.

Following all of the above, the Governors will select the 180 candidates to whom they wish to offer places, and will notify the London Borough of Enfield who will be co-ordinating the process with all other Boroughs. The final results of the Secondary Transfer Procedure will be communicated to parents early in March by their own Local Authority.

Admission Criteria

Only students with the minimum academic requirements are eligible for admission to the sixth form. The requirements are: students must achieve at least A grades in the subjects they wish to study at AS-level; and students must achieve at least 6 grade A's overall in the GCSE examinations. Provisional offers of places are made based upon a 500 word statement and a test taken at Latymer in the Spring Term.

Over-subscription

Where the number of candidates for admission exceeds the number of places available the Governors will, in order to avoid over-large classes, bear in mind subject choices of external applicants. The school will allocate places from among candidates in the following order of priority:

1. Those who live within the postcode area identified in 2 above
2. The Latymer test

Test

All applicants will be required to come to Latymer to sit a test. This is to check on potential, rather than to test knowledge. No practice papers are available. Photographic evidence of identity is required for those who come to sit the test.