Buckinghamshire: School Allocation Profiles

The allocations shown are for National Allocations Day (1st March) each year and, where we have them, for later allocation rounds or the final allocation profile at the end of August/start of September to show where there was movement on the waiting lists.

It is important to understand the abbreviations used in the tables. The first priority for admission are (usually) siblings of children currently in the school and living in catchment (In-Area Siblings – IAS). Each school will define “sibling” in their Admissions Policy – some will be siblings of pupils in Years 7 – 11, others may include Years 12 & 13, and a few schools also give priority to siblings of former pupils. After in-area siblings come children without older siblings who live in catchment (IA). Then come siblings who live out of catchment (OAS) and finally children who are out of catchment (OA) with no particular priority other than the distance from their home to the school gates.

Now that all of the Bucks Grammar Schools and some Upper Schools are Academies they all have different Admissions Policies. It is therefore absolutely essential that parents take the time to read the Admissions Policy of each individual school that may be of interest to them, as shown on their website.

The figures given below represent the furthest extent of the allocation in each case. For example, an allocation profile that reads “OAS to 5.5 mls” indicates that all children in catchment received places, but after that only siblings living within 5.5 miles outside of catchment received a place. Children who were nearer to the school but who did not have a sibling were not allocated a place.

In summary, priority is usually given in this order:

IAS = In Area siblings.
IA = In Area, i.e. catchment.
OAS = Out of Area siblings.
OA = Out of Area, i.e. out of catchment. That might be in or out of County, and priority is not given to children resident in Buckinghamshire.
ALL = All Offered, i.e. everyone who applied received a place.

Please note that successful over-subscription appeals are not included in the profile because they would distort the profiles.

Please note that at the top of each column it states “DD”, standing for Driving Distance and “SLD”, standing for Straight Line Distance, which has been used since 2013.

¹ The Royal Grammar School (182 day places & 10 boarding) – Due to under subscription for boarding places in 2008, the school took the decision to convert the 7 vacant boarding places to day places.

² Burnham Grammar eventually became “All Offered” in 2012 due to there being 9 successful oversubscription appeals for DCGS and RGS. The distance shown is therefore the true distance before those appeals.

³ For Beaconsfield High School the distance shown for 2013 is walking/driving distance, so the figures are comparable with previous years.

³ The Grange School offered places to all applicants who applied on time, but appears to have been oversubscribed for late applicants after the first round of allocations.

⁴ In 2008 the Mandeville School created an additional Y7 class due to the number of successful transfer appeals in previous years.

The Highcrest Academy now allocates places via banding, and therefore past data on distances have been removed from the table. Allocations within the banding system are shown below.

School Name Changes:
Aylesbury Vale Academy was previously known as the Quarrendon School.
Burnham E-ACT Academy was previously Burnham Upper School.
Chiltern Hills Academy was previously Chesham Park Community College.
The Highcrest Academy was previously the Highcrest Community School.

Upper Schools with Special Entrance Requirements

Great Marlow School

The Highcrest Academy

St. Michael’s Catholic School

Waddesdon CE School