Parents who express a preference for a Voluntary Aided Secondary School should follow the same procedures as for Community Schools. However, in Aided Schools, decisions on admission are made by the Governing Body of the school. You will be notified of the decision about your application by either the Governing Body or by the Authority acting on its behalf.
The admissions criteria for Aided Schools will differ from those which apply in Community Schools. Parents who wish their child to be admitted to Carmel R.C. Technology College should contact the school before 23rd November 2002 for details of how to apply for admission.
Carmel R.C. Technology College
Admissions Policy
In deciding the Admissions Policy relating to Carmel College, the governors are mindful of the physical capacity of the College and the likely demand for places. As Carmel College is a voluntary aided college, the Governing Body is the admissions authority.
The Governing Body wishes to make arrangements which will preserve the character of the College, and in accordance with the beliefs set out in Section 6(3)(G) of the Education Act 1980, and as amended by the 1988 Act, Section 30, the College will not be required to admit pupils if to do so would be incompatible with these arrangements, even when admissions have not reached the Colleges 'standard number' or any higher admissions limit fixed.
The governors will seek to establish a Section 6 (6) Agreement (1980 Act) with the Local Education Authority with the aim of retaining the right to preserve the essential character of the College.
As previously stated, the Governing body has sought to establish an admissions policy which takes into account of the physical capacity of the College and the likely demand for places and also the obligation under the 1980 Act to avoid prejudicing the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources.
The admission limit for September 2003 is set at 180.
The standard number is 170 based on the 1989/1990 intake.
Criteria relating to Admissions
As governors of a Voluntary Aided Roman Catholic College, the Governing Body has decided that the following criteria shall relate to all admissions, and pupils will be admitted in order of priority.
The criteria will be applied in the first instance to those applications which have made Carmel R.C. Technology College their first preference.
(i) all baptised Catholic children aged 11 or over currently in Catholic feeder schools. The main feeder schools are:
Darlington -
St Augustine's
St Teresa's
St Bede's
Holy Family
Barnard Castle -
St Marys'
Trimdon -
St Williams
(ii) baptised Catholic children, not in feeder schools, who have brothers and/or sisters in the College, who are able to provide a letter of support from their Parish Priest.
(iii) baptised Catholic children not in feeder schools who are able to provide a letter of support from their Parish Priest.
(iv) the governors will also normally admit those children, not of the Catholic faith, whose parents have quite specifically requested a Christian education for their children within a Catholic School, and are able to provide a letter of support signed by a Minister of a Christian Religion or their equivalent if the child is not a Christian.
The following order of priority will apply under this sub-section:
(a) non catholic pupils who attend a feeder school.
(b) non catholic pupils who have a brother and/or sister already attending the College provided that he/she has been subject to these admissions criteria.
(c) non catholic pupils from non-feeder schools with preference given to those living nearest to the College.
(v) The Governors reserve the right to admit children with exceptional medical factors provided the College is informed in full of the details at the time of the initial application.
(vi) In applying any of the criteria relating to admissions shown above, should there be more applications than places, the distance between the College and the child's proven home address, measured by the shortest walking route, will then be the deciding factor in determining priority.