Admissions

Open Days

• Thursday 20th September 2012  : 6.00 – 8.00pm
• Thursday and Friday, 4th and 5th October 2012 : 9.30 – 10.30am

Applications

Applications for Central Foundation should be made through the standard unified secondary school application form.

An application form can be downloaded from the school website (www.centralfoundationboys.co.uk) or from the Secondary School Admissions website (http://www.islington.gov.uk/childrens-and-families/education-and-childcare/admissions/secondary/)

If you do not live in Islington, you must apply using your home local authority’s form (i.e. the council to whom you pay your council tax).

Applications can also be made online: https://www.eadmissions.org.uk/eAdmissions/app

All students that apply for Central Foundation sit a literacy, verbal and non-verbal reasoning test in December at the school.  From the results of this test the students are allocated into one of four ability bands, with each band being set at 25% of the national performance profile.  In the case of these bands being oversubscribed places are allocated on the following criteria:

1. Students who are looked after;
2. Students who have exceptional special educational needs or have social or medical reasons for them to attend this particular school;
3. Students who have a brother who will be at the school when the transferring student is due to attend;

(For this criterion, “brother” includes any whole or half-brother by blood or adoption, and any step or foster brother who lives with the child for whom the application is made at the date of application);

1. Students who live nearest to the school in a straight line from the students’ entrance on Cowper Street to the student’s home address (as defined by the Land and Property Gazetteer) measured by the Local Authority computerised measuring system. Where it is necessary to differentiate between applicants living in flats using the same street entrance, priority will be determined by random allocation.

Download our prospectus.

Read our Admissions Policy.

Welcoming Our New Year 7s

We are delighted to welcome our new Year 7s who have been offered a place for the coming school year. For those students we have the following activities and events planned to welcome new students and their families to the school:

• Thursday April 19th 2012 - Friendship Day – See how it went here!
• Tuesday 26th June 2012: 9.30am – 2.30pm - Induction Day – Students experience a ‘typical’ school day
• Tuesday 4th – Friday 7th September – An intensive introduction to school life

You join us at an incredibly exciting time in the school’s history.  Our Ofsted inspection in November 2010 rated the school as good with outstanding features.  Our Sixth Form was rated outstanding, making it one of only 13 A-level centres in the country to receive the top rating in that year. In 2011, 64% of our students achieved 5A*-C with English and Maths, 83% achieved 5A*-C grades. At KS5 our value added put us in the top 10% of deliverers in the country.

We are confident that our new students’ time with us will be happy and full of satisfying yet challenging experiences with lots of opportunities to achieve and succeed.

Please contact us if you have any questions regarding future admissions or the induction timetable on 020 7253 3741 or email info@cfbs.islington.sch.uk