Admissions to East Boldon Infant School are managed in accordance with the Local Authority policy and admission and appeal procedures, which can be found at the link below:

All children are now accepted into school in the September of the year in which they will have their fifth birthday. Parents requesting a place for their child in the reception class must complete an application form which is available through the Local Authority. Our Reception intake is 60 children.

www.southtyneside.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Oversubscription Criteria

In the case of requests exceeding the number of places available then the following criteria will be applied:

  1. A ‘Looked After Child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement, or special guardianship order (see Note 1 below), including children (who appear to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted (see note 2 below).
  2. Parental home residence within the defined catchment area of school.
  3. Concurrent sibling link – (an older brother or sister attending the school at the same time and residing at the same address, to include adoptive siblings, half siblings, step siblings and long term fostered children.)
  4. Shortest distance measured as a straight line, from the Ordnance Survey coordinates for the parental home residence (including flats) to the school main entrance, using South Tyneside Council’s Geographic Information System (GIS), with those living closer to the school receiving higher priority.