Admissions

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

Key Dates

• 31 October 2011 – application deadline
• 1 March 2012 – offer day. The Secondary School Admissions Team will write to you to offer you a school place. You can expect this letter to arrive on 2 March 2012. You can also view and accept your offer online from 5pm on 1 March 2012 if you registered and applied online.

Allocation of Places

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.

Please contact us if you have any questions on 020 7253 3741 or email info@cfbs.islington.sch.uk

Read our Admissions Policy.