Applications for CHS South will be made through the Manchester Local Authority (LA) Co-ordinated Admissions Process. Information about the application process and access to the online application form will be sent to parents/carers by the relevant Local Authority. 

All parents/carers are required to apply to their home Local Authority regardless of where the school/academy they are applying for is situated. Manchester residents will apply to Manchester Local Authority. The Local Authority will liaise with other Admission Authorities in Manchester and other Local Authorities where required. Manchester Local Authority will inform parent/carers of the outcome of their application. 

For further information on Admission Applications contact Manchester City Council:

www.manchester.gov.uk/admissions

0161 245 7166

Manchester Local Authority’s Integrated Admissions Service can be contacted at the address below: 

School Admissions 
PO Box 532 
Town Hall Extension 
Manchester 
M60 2LA

The closing date for applications for September 2025 will be 31st October 2024 at 5:00pm. Any admission forms received after the closing date will be processed as late applications. 

All applications will then be processed by the Admission Authority, applying the oversubscription criteria below if necessary. All parents will be notified of the outcome of the application process by 1st March 2025.

Admissions Policy September 2025

Admissions Policy September 2024

When the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care plan or a Statement of Special Educational Needs naming the school, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below, in priority order: 

1. Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order. 
2. Priority will next be given to children based on their exceptional medical or social needs or those of their parents. Each application must include evidence, from a medical specialist or social worker of the child’s/parent’s need and why they must attend this school rather than any other, based on those needs. If evidence is not submitted to the LA with the application, a child’s or parent’s medical or social needs cannot be considered. 
3. Priority will next be given to the siblings of pupils attending the school at the time the application is received, where an older sibling is in Year 11 siblings will not be prioritised under this criterion. 
4. Priority will next be given to the siblings of pupils with a parent who at the time of application/the application closing date has been employed at CHS South for two years or more years, or who were recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. 
5. All other children.

If in categories 2-5 above a tie-break is necessary to determine which child is admitted, the child living closest to the school will be given priority for admission. Distance is measured from the centre point for a home to the centre point for the school as defined by the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) using the Local Authority’s computerised measuring system. 

Random allocation undertaken by the local authority will be used as a tie-break in categories 2-5 above to decide who has highest priority for admission if the distance between a child’s home and the academy/free school is equidistant in any two or more cases.’

Late applications are those applications received after the closing date and before the first day of term in September, but not made in time to enable an offer or refusal of a place to be made on National Offer Day. Late applications will be considered after those received on time. If, following consideration of all applicants the school is oversubscribed, the child will be placed on the school’s waiting list.

Parents may request that their child is admitted outside their normal age group. To do so parents should include a request with their application, specifying why admission out of normal year group is being requested. 

When such a request is made, the academy trust will make a decision on the basis of the circumstances of the case and in the best interests of the child concerned, taking into account the views of the headteacher and any supporting evidence provided by the parent.

In the normal admission round, the School will operate a waiting list for the duration of the first term following entry of the cohort until 31 December.  The names of all those who were unsuccessful in achieving a place in the normal admission round will be included on the list.  Thereafter the list will be cleared, and parents will need to re-apply if they still want to be considered for a place. 

For in-year applications, the School will operate a waiting list for the remainder of the term in which the application was refused.  Thereafter the list will be cleared, and parents will need to re-apply if they still want to be considered for a place. 

Children are ranked on the waiting list by reference to the oversubscription criteria set out in this policy, not by the date their name was added, which means names can go up as well as down as more children with higher priority are added.  Being included on the waiting list does not affect parents' statutory right of appeal against the refusal of a place. 

Children allocated a place under the Local Authority's Fair Access Protocol will take priority over those on the waiting list.