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Redborne Upper School - Ampthill

Open events for parents and carers

Thursday 26 September 2024

Presentations: 4:30pm, 5:15pm, 6pm and 6:45pm, with an opportunity to look around the school.

Thursday 24 October 2024

Sixth form open evening: 5pm until 7:30pm.

Virtual tour

Take the virtual tour on the school's website.

Type of school

Upper School - Academy

Flitwick Road

Ampthill

Bedfordshire

MK45 2NU

Telephone

01525 404462

Email address

admin@redborne.com

Website

http://www.redbornecommunitycollege.com/

Fax

01525 841246

Headteacher

Oliver Button

Age range

13 to 18

Ofsted inspection

View report on Ofsted's website

Apply for an upper school place online

Published admission numbers (places available)

380

Designated measuring point

Main gate to the north school

Oversubscription criteria

Oversubscription criteria:

all 'looked after' children or children who were previously 'looked after', including 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 (see definition below)
children living in the catchment area with siblings at the school
any child of a member of full time or part time staff (see definition below)
children living in the catchment area attending Woodland and Alameda middle schools
other children living in the catchment area
children not living in the catchment area but with siblings at the school
‘very exceptional’ medical grounds (see definition below)
other children presently attending Alameda and Woodland middle schools
any other children

Definition of 'children who appear to have been in state care outside of England'

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.

A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation or any other provider of care whose sole purpose if to benefit society.

Definition of 'children of staff'

Any child of a member of full time or part time staff (teaching or non-teaching) who is employed by the school e.g. parent by blood or adoption or with legal responsibility and living with the child in the same house Monday to Friday for a minimum of 2 years. The member of staff must have been in post for at least 2 years.

Definition of 'very exceptional' medical grounds

‘Very exceptional’ medical grounds refers to cases where there are exceptional medical reasons which make it essential that a child should attend a particular school and where the preferred school is the only school locally that could meet the child’s needs. A medical report from the child’s doctor or consultant must be submitted with the application form, setting out valid medical reasons why it is essential for the child to be admitted to the school in question and the difficulties that would be caused if the child had to attend another school. The governors reserve the right to seek further information to determine whether it is essential for a child to be admitted to the preferred school on medical grounds. Admission on medical grounds cannot be considered where the medical condition relates to that of a parent/carer, brother or sister or another relative/childminder.

Allocation statistics

Allocation statistics
Published admission number (PAN)	Requests	Places offered	Last place offered
380 (allocated to 406)	424	406 (1 allocated due to late EHCP)	At the time of the initial allocation in March 2024 the last place offered was to a child in criterion "any other children" lived at a distance of 8,064.81 metres from the school. During the on-time allocation, after the final allocation took place, we then received a notification of a late EHCP which totaled the on-roll number to 407.

In-year admissions