The determined admissions limit for the academy for September 2023 is 160 (temporary PAN). In deciding in admissions to Da Vinci Academy, priority is given to students whose parents have actively expressed a preference for the school using the application form obtained from the local authority:

https://www.derby.gov.uk/education-and-learning/schools-and-colleges/school-admissions/secondary-schools-admissions/year-seven-place/#page-1

1. Places will first be allocated to Looked after children and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Please will then be allocated to children who are both living in the catchment area served by the school and have brothers or sisters of compulsory school age still attending the school at the time of their admission.
3. Places will then be allocated to other children living in the catchment area at the time of admission.
4. Places will then be allocated to children who do not live in the catchment area served by the school but have brothers or sisters of compulsory school age attending the school at the time of their admission.
5. Places will then be allocated to other children whose parents have requested a place.
6. Places will then be allocated to students whose parents did not express a preference by the closing date.

Oversubscription Criteria

Oversubscription occurs when the academy receives more applications than places. The Academy will apply the following criteria in these circumstances.

Pupils who have a Statement of Special Educational Need (SEN) or Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC), where the relevant academy is named in the child’s statement or plan, will be admitted.  This will reduce the number of places available for other pupils.

• Looked after children and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
• Children who are both living in the catchment area served by the school and have brothers or sisters of compulsory school age still attending the schools at the time of admission
• Other children living in the catchment area at the time of admission. Where this is the case, the Council will assess applications from the address the parents are living at the closing date, and will reassess applications on the National Offer Date. 
• Children who do not live in the catchment area served by the school but who have brothers or sisters of compulsory school age attending the school at the time of their admission
• Other children whose parents have requested a place
• Children whose parents did not request a place before the Derby City deadline date.

For category 6, we will allocate places in the same order of priority as for categories 1 to 5. 

In categories 1 – 6, when choices have to be made between children satisfying the same criteria, we will allocate places to those living nearest to the school, measured by a straight line.  The line will be measured from the home address to the school using the National Ordnance Survey set points. The ‘home address’ is the address of the primary carer of the student, as shown by who receives the Child Benefit.

Brothers or Sisters

For admission purposes the Academy Trust considers the following as siblings:

• a brother or sister who share the same parents
• a half-brother or half-sister, where two children share one common parent
• a step brother or step sister, where two children are related by a parent’s marriage
• adopted or fostered children living in the same household under the terms of a Child Arrangements Order

The Academy Trust does not consider these as siblings:

• cousins or other family relationships not included in 1 above
• siblings who at 1^st September 2022 will not be registered pupils at the relevant academy

Parents will be notified of the single offer of a place by the local authority the child is resident in on 1

Parents will be notified of the single offer of a place by the local authority the child is resident in on 1^st March 2023.

Parents of children who are not offered a place will be advised of their right of appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. The deadline for receipt of appeals is the 31^st March 2023.

The academy will then keep a waiting list of children who have not been offered places. The children will be listed according to the priority order established at the time of admission. Parents will be contacted by the Local Authority the child is resident in should a place become available for their child.