Year 7 applications for  Admissions – September 2022

Ninestiles Admissions for new Year 7 2021 will require all students in Year 6 to sit an assessment. The assessment will be held on Saturday 9th October. You must complete the Ninestiles application form for this by Friday 24th September 2021.

Assessment forms have been posted out to local primary schools. Please collect one from your primary school reception. If your primary school is not local you can obtain an assessment form via the following,

1. Download the Assessment Form on the right hand side, fill it in and return to Ninestiles School
2.  Email Admissions@ninestiles.org.uk with your name and address and we will post a form out to you.

All applicants must also complete the Local Authority application form to be considered for a place at Ninestiles.  Please contact your child’s Primary School for instructions on how to fill out the information required to complete the Local Authority admissions form.  Contact details for the Local Authority are  Tel. 0121 303 1888

Late applicants will be positioned on the distance waiting list after the initial offers are made to children who have completed our admissions process.  Late entries from siblings are placed at the top of the distance waiting list and take priority.

Every year 300 places are offered to children aged 11 by 1st September in the year of entry, of which 9 places are allocated to the Resource Base by the Local Authority. All other applicants will be required to complete an assessment. These assessments will test aptitude in non-verbal reasoning in line with the proposal in the Government White paper “Excellence in Schools”, which encourages specialist schools to give priority to children who demonstrate the relevant aptitude. 30 places (10% of 300) will be allocated to those students achieving the highest marks in the assessment tests.

Up to 261 places allocated on criteria of:

• Looked after children and all previously looked after children who are now adopted or subject to a child arrangement order or special guardianship order. Including those children who have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
• Children with a brother or sister already at the academy who will still be in attendance in September 2021.
• Children attending a Summit Learning Trust primary school.
• Children who live nearest the academy.

Within each of these categories, priority is given to those who live nearest the academy, calculated on the basis of a straight-line measurement between home and academy. Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight line measurement between the applicant’s home address and the middle front gate of the academy. The Local Authority’s Distance Definition, Shared Responsibility, Separating /No tie Breaker definitions have been adopted by Ninestiles.

*Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight line measurement between the applicant’s home address and the middle front gate of the academy. The Local Authority’s Distance Definition, Shared Responsibility, Separating /No tie Breaker definitions have been adopted by Ninestiles.