Admissions

Choosing a Secondary School is an important decision for children and families. Our aim is to make this process as easy as possible and to support families to enable a smooth successful transition.  

Lea Valley Academy is permitted to admit 150 pupils into a year group. Places at Lea Valley Academy are allocated by the London Borough of Enfield schools Admission service.

Lea Valley Academy has adopted the London Borough of Enfield admission guide.

As a starting point we invite any interested families who would like to visit Lea Valley to our annual Open Evening event in the Autumn term. Alternatively, you can arrange to visit the school for a tour during the school day by calling the front office on 01992 763666 or sending your enquiry to LVAenquiries@edact.org.uk

For all admissions and transport information please follow the link to https://www.enfield.gov.uk/services/children-and-education/school-admissions-and-applications.

Enfield Schools Admissions Service can be contacted on 020 8379 5501 or email enfield.school.admissions@enfield.gov.uk.

Post 16 admissions are explained in the 6th form prospectus which can be found within the 'Sixth Form' section of the website.

In-year admissions are applications made outside the normal round of admissions. The Local Authority’s co-ordinates in-year admissions for schools in Enfield.  Lea Valley will consider all such applications and if the year group applied for has a place available, admit the child. The In-Year application form and further information about the process is available from the Local Authority’s website at  In-Year School admissions applications  · Enfield Council 

Students applying for a place throughout the schools year in Years 7-11 can so do by completing the online borough application form which can be found eApplication form  on: https://www.enfield.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/40220/In-year-secondary-application-form-Education.pdf

If the school receives more applications than places available, priority will be given to applicants in the following order:

Admissions Criteria

In the case of over-subscription, after the admission of pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan, where the academy is named, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below, in the following order:

1. Children in public care (looked after children) and children who were adopted (or subject to residence orders or special guardianship orders) immediately following having been looked after. (Children adopted without having been previously looked after are not included in this criterion.)

2. Children for whom a particular school is appropriate on exceptional medical grounds. Such applications will be considered under this criterion only if they are supported by an attached written statement from a doctor. This must demonstrate that there is a very specific connection between the child’s medical need and the school requested.

3. Children with a brother or sister (sibling) who will be attending the school at the time of proposed admission. The children concerned must be living at the same address.

4. Children whose parent is a member of staff who has been employed at the school concerned for two or more years at the time of application and/or children of a member of staff who has been recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.

5. Children living nearest to the school measured ‘as the crow flies’, that is, in a straight line from the child’s home to the main entrance of the school (travel by private car or public transport will not be taken into account).

 When it is not possible to admit all applicants to a particular school within any criterion, priority will be given to those living closest to the school measured as in criterion 5 above.

Children who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), will be offered a place at the school named on their plan in accordance with the relevant legislation.

Siblings are defined as brothers or sisters of children already on roll of the school who will still be in the school at the time the applicant is admitted. Siblings must be living at the same address. For primary to secondary transfer, sibling priority will only be given where the older sibling will still be attending the school in the September that the younger child joins. The term ‘sibling’ means a full, step, half, adopted or fostered brother or sister, but not cousins.

Applicants who wish to appeal against the decision of the admissions authority to refuse their child a place at the school should contact Lea Valley Academy directly: Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, EN3 6TW. Tel: 01992 763666.

For primary to secondary transfer, sibling priority will only be given where the older sibling will still be attending the school in the September that the younger child joins.

eApplication form https://www.eadmissions.org.uk/eAdmissions/app