Admissions

Joining Our School

New intake parents' evening

Please see below for the information presented at our new intake parents' evening.

Open evening information

If you are considering sending your child to Milton CE Primary School, we strongly recommend that you arrange a visit to the school.

During your visit, you be given time to enjoy a tour of the school site and have an opportunity to meet a senior member of staff, who will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Please contact us to arrange a visit.


For details of how to apply for a place at the school, please visit Cambridge Schools Admissions.

 

For more information on our admissions, such as how places are allocated and what happens if the school is over-subscribed, please see the information below.


View Our Admissions Policy School Prospectus Applying for a place in Reception September 2025 First steps guide for parents by CCC

  • Joining at the start of Reception & Years 1 to 6

    Parents wishing to apply for a place for their child in one of our Reception classes or in a class in Years One to Six, please visit the Cambridgeshire Local Authority’s School Admissions website.


    This includes a new school catchment search facility so that you can find out if you are living in our school’s catchment area (although you do not need to be in catchment to apply).


    You can also apply for a place online.


  • Joining the School During the School Year

    You can apply for a place for your child at any time outside the normal admissions round. As is the case in the normal admissions round, all children whose statement of SEN or EHC plan names the school will be admitted.

    Likewise, if there are spaces available in the year group you are applying for, your child will always be offered a place.

    If there are no spaces available at the time of your application, your child’s name will be added to a waiting list for the relevant year group. When a space becomes available it will be filled by one of the pupils on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed in section 6.3 of this policy. Priority will not be given to children on the basis that they have been on the waiting list the longest.

    Details of the in-year application process, including how to apply online can be found on the following

    webpage:

    https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/children-and-families/schools-&-learning/apply-for-a-schoolplace/in-year-applications-moving-schools/


How Places Are Offered

For admission into Reception each September, the LA, on behalf of the Governing Body, will offer places to up to a set number of children. This is the Published Admission Number (PAN) for that year group.

In the event that more applications than the PAN are received, the oversubscription criteria will be applied to determine priority for places. Both preferences are treated equally, regardless of whether they are first or second preference

Over-subscription Criteria

All children whose statement of special educational needs (SEN) or education, health and care (EHC) plan names the school will be admitted before any other places are allocated.

If the school is not oversubscribed, all applicants will be offered a place.


 In the event that the school receives more applications than the number of places it has available, places will be given to those children who meet any of the criteria set out below, in order until all places are filled.


1. Highest priority will be given to looked after children and all previously looked after children who apply for a place at the school.


2. Children living in the catchment area with a sibling at the school at the time of admission. Siblings include step siblings, foster siblings, adopted siblings and other children living permanently at the same address. Priority will not be given to children with siblings who are former pupils of the school.


3. Children living in the catchment area.


4. Children living outside the catchment area who have a sibling at the school at the time of admission.


5. Children living outside the catchment area who have applied and been unable to gain a place at their Cambridgeshire catchment area school because of oversubscription.


6. Children who live outside the catchment area, but nearest the school as measured by a straight line.

In the case of 2 or more applications that cannot be separated by the oversubscription criteria outlined above, the school will use the distance between the school and a child’s home as a tie breaker to decide between applicants. Priority will be given to children who live closest to the school.


Distance will be measured in a straight line from the child’s home address to the school’s front gates on Humphries Way. A child’s home address will be considered to be where he/she is resident for the majority of nights in a normal school week.


Where the distance between 2 children’s homes and the school is the same, random allocation will be used to decide between them. This process will be independently verified.