Admissions criteria for Hammersmith Academy

Applications for the Academy will be dealt with in order according to the following criteria.

1. The Academy Trust has the following agreed admissions number for the Academy for the years 2013/2014 and 2014/15 and, subject to any changes approved or required by the Secretary of State, for subsequent years:

a) 120 students in Year 7.

b) 120 students in Year 12

2. Arrangements for applications for places in Year 7 at the Hammersmith Academy will be made in accordance with the LA’s co-ordinated admission arrangements and will be made on the Common Application Form provided and administered by the relevant local authority.

To ensure a wide and representative spread of ability in its intake, the Academy will operate a system of fair banding for its year 7 intake as agreed in its Funding Agreement with the Secretary of State, as follows:

a) Each applicant to the Academy will be required to take a non-verbal reasoning test which will place applicants in a rank order. The test will take approximately one hour and will be held in November or December at a time and venue to be determined each year.

b) Each applicant will be placed in one of five bands based on their performance in the test. As far as possible, each band will contain an equal number of applicants. Places will be allocated by applying the oversubscription criteria so that, as far as possible, an equal number of students is admitted from each band. In order to ensure an equal chance for all applicants, bands will be determined by reference to the ability profile of applicants to the school.

Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. After the admission of students with statements of Special Educational Needs where the Academy is named on the statement, the criteria will be applied in the order in which they are set out below:

a) children in public care;

b) Admission of students living in the Academy Admissions Priority Area on the basis of straight-line distance from the main entrance of the Academy to the main entrance of the child’s home, in accordance with the banding criteria described in paragraph 38 above (the Admissions Priority Area being defined as in Annex 1, i.e. the area enclosed to the North by the A 4020 Uxbridge Road South Side; to the South by the A4 Great West Road North Side; to the East by the West Brompton - Olympia - Willesden railway line, and to the West by Larden Road, Emlyn Road, Prebend Gardens and British Grove West sides).

c) If any of the 5 bands remains unfilled from within the Admissions Priority Area, places will be offered to other applicants in the same band on the basis of proximity to the school using straight line measurement from the main entrance of the Academy to the main entrance of the child’s home.

Download the Hammersmith Academy Admissions Policy in full

Admissions priority Area

Find the Registration form for Year 7 admissions here.