Up Holland High School
| Postal address | Sandbrook Road Orrell Wigan WN5 7AL |
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| Telephone | 01695 625191 |
| Headteacher | Mr P Scarborough |
| Number on roll January 2025 | 862 |
| Admission number 2026/27 | 180 |
Information relating to autumn term 2025 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 206 |
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| 2nd | 164 |
| 3rd | 120 |
| Total preferences received | 490 |
Initial allocation under each criterion:
| Education, Health & Care Plan | 2 |
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| LAC and previously Looked After | 3 |
| Social/Medical/Welfare | 0 |
| Service Pupil Premium | 1 |
| In GPA with Sibling | 14 |
| In GPA no sibling | 33 |
| Out GPA with sibling | 54 |
| Out GPA no sibling | 73 |
| LA Allocated | 0 |
| Total | 180 |
Summary of policy
This is an academy – please contact the academy for full admission details. To apply for a place at this school, please apply online and use the supplementary information form available from the school.
To apply for a place at this school, please apply online.
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against the oversubscription criteria set out below. After the admission of pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans, where Up Holland High School is named on the Plan, the criteria will be applied in the following order:
- Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but then became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order.' This includes children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted;
- Children who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of likely admission. The brother or sister must be on the school roll in Years 7 — 11. This includes full, half or stepbrothers and sisters, adopted and foster brothers and sisters or a child of the parent/ carer/ partner, and in every case, who is living at the same address and is part of the same family unit;
- Children of staff at the school in either of the following circumstances:
- the member of staff is employed by the trust and assigned at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made and/or
- the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
- Other children.
Tie Break
In the event of any over-subscription in the number of applications made under any of the categories above the school will offer places first to children whose family home is nearest the school.
The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria; it is a straight line (radial) measure.
If the Governing Body is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (e.g. siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.
The distance measure is a straight line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data).
Transport
Please see the main school admissions section.
Parents in any doubt over the distance between home and school for the provision of transport are asked to check with their local area education office. This may be particularly relevant if you live close to a county border.
Definitions
Definitions of the following terms are available and apply except where individual arrangements spell out a different definition.
- Distance
- Parents / family members
- Medical/social/welfare
- Looked after children and previously looked after children