For Admissions and Accessibility policies, please view the Policies Page
As a prospective parent, you will have no doubt agonised over the choices available to you in mid-Cheshire regarding which secondary school to send your child to. We are fortunate in mid-Cheshire to have a wide selection of good secondary schools to choose from.
The Winsford Academy is one of those.
In this section of our website, we provide you with a range of documents to read through to help inform your decision. There is, however, no substitute for a visit to the academy during a normal school day where you can see at first hand our orderly, well-focused and happy learning environment. You will not be disappointed and if you’ve already made the decision to send your child to the academy, you will be utterly reassured and filled with confidence by what you see. If you’re still considering us an option, we guarantee that we’ll give you plenty of food for thought and make this tough decision even more difficult!
If you would like to visit the academy during a normal school day, please contact Mrs J Fox, PA to the Principal, on 01606 592300 or at jane.fox@winsfordacademy.org.uk
Also take the time to look through our website. It gives a very good flavour of what our academy is about.
1st September 2023
31st October 2023
School Admissions, Cheshire West and Chester Council, Wyvern House, The Drumber, Winsford, Cheshire, CW7 1AH.
1st March 2024
If you have been unsuccessful with your application, please contact us at admin@winsfordacademy.org.uk for advice.
If you decide to appeal you are strongly advised to seek a place at an alternative school in case your appeal is unsuccessful. This will not prejudice your right of appeal for The Winsford Academy.
15th April 2024
You can contact the Admissions team on 0300 123 039 or admissions@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk.
If we cannot offer you a place you have the right to Appeal, which will be determined by an Independent Appeal Panel. Please email admin@winsfordacademy.org.uk for an appeals form.
The Appeals timetable can be found on the Fallibroome Trust Website. Please follow this link to the Appeals Timetable.
If you would like to secure a place in Year 7 in September 2024 at the Academy you should apply through the Cheshire West and Chester School Admissions procedure (31st October 2023 is the closing date for applications to be returned to Cheshire West and Chester).
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 Winsford Academy is named on the statement, the criteria will be applied in the order in which they are set out below.
The tie-breaker within categories would be:
Notes:
Sibling is defined as:
The ‘home address’ is where the child lives for the majority of the school week with a parent who has parental responsibility as defined in the Children Act 1989 and a parent includes a person who is not a parent but who has responsibility for him/her. This could include a student’s guardians but will not usually include relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc unless they have all the rights, duties, powers and responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of the child has in relation to the child and his/her property.
Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, the place of residency will be determined as the address where the child resides for the majority of the week, (ie where the child wakes up between Monday to Friday). Where the child lives equally with both parents, the address provided for claiming child benefit and, where appropriate, Child Tax Credits, will be applied to the admission application. Distances are measured in a straight line from the centrally plotted Basic Land and Property Unit point (BLPU) of the child’s home address to the centrally plotted BLPU point of the school as defined by Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG).
If you are considering making an application for a place in years 8, 9, 10 & 11 please contact the Academy on 01606 592300 and we will be very pleased to show you around during any normal school day. Formal applications for a place in these years should be made to the Cheshire West and Chester Admissions team https://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/residents/education-and-learning/school-admissions/secondary-admissions
If you would like to visit the academy during a normal school day, please contact Mrs J Fox, PA to the Principal, on 01606 592300 or at jane.fox@winsfordacademy.org.uk
Also take the time to look through our website. It gives a very good flavour of what our academy is about.
Please check back for useful Year 7 transition information
Make applications for school places on this website and find out more about the process.
Local Authority School ApplicationsYou can view the current Admissions Criteria Policy on the Policies page. Follow the link on the following button.
Policies PageOur admissions number is 240.