Admissions Consultation

We are proposing some changes to our Admissions Policy. As such, we are launching a consultation on our school’s admissions arrangements and we would like to hear your views and any concerns you may have about the proposed changes. In line with the ‘School admissions code’, this consultation will run for six weeks, from 18^th December 2024 to 29^th January 2025. We are committed to ensuring our admissions arrangements continue to be open and fair, and we welcome your input as a valued member of our community.

A full version of the proposed changes to the admissions arrangements and the rationale behind these proposed changes is available below, alongside the current and draft Admissions Policy. You can also request a hard copy from the school office at consultation@csgrammar.com.

Responses should be made in writing and can be delivered either in paper form to address or submitted electronically to consultation@csgrammar.com. Your response must outline your name, address and relationship to the school in order to be considered. If you have any trouble with responding to the consultation, or require accessibility adjustments to access any of the information, please let us know on email address and we will be happy to help.

All responses to the consultation should be received before 11:59pm on 29th January 2025. Due to the need for us to consider the responses and make changes as necessary, we will unfortunately be unable to consider responses received after this time.

After the close of the consultation, the admissions authority will meet to consider all of the responses. The outcome of the consultation will be published on the school website as soon as possible once we have reached a decision, and the final admissions arrangements will follow shortly after. Hard copies of the final arrangements and consultation outcome will be made available upon request to all respondents of the consultation.

If you want to discuss anything in this letter further, please contact Nigel Walker, Headteacher via consultation@csgrammar.com

Rationale for the propsed changes to the Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School's Admissions Policy

The school is amending the In-Year Admissions criteria as a consequence of the widening of participation which now takes place at the start of Year 7. To this end, the following amendments to our admissions arrangements have been proposed:

• A change in the oversubscription criteria to remove point 2 as this only applies at the start of Year 7

The school is proposing to increase the average points score across the top 7 full course GCSEs including English and Maths required for entry to the Sixth Form from 6 to 6.5. The rationale behind this is the significant over-subscription for Post 16 Entry.

In addition, the school is proposing to increase the number of places offered externally in Year 12 from 60 to 80.