Admissions Arrangements
From 1 September 2024. Shropshire Council will be coordinating and allocating all requests for places at our school. TrustEd Schools is the admissions authority and has determined the admissions criteria for Mary Webb School and Science College.
Shropshire Council produce a booklet ‘Parents’ Guide to Education in Shropshire’ each year with up-to-date information about schools and a full explanation of the admissions processes.
Published Admissions Numbers
Mary Webb School and Science College has a Published Admission Number of 120 for the Year 7 intake in 2025 (this number also applies to current Years 8 – 11). For the academic year commencing September 2024, the number of preferences received and places allocated was as follows:
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Date of allocation
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No of 1st preferences received
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Total places allocated
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1st preferences
allocated
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2nd preferences allocated
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Published Admission Number
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March 2024
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127
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124
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120
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4
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120
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Year 6 Admissions
Parents/Carers of Year 6 children and resident in Shropshire are required, in the Autumn Term prior to the school year of transfer, to apply online through the Shropshire Council stating three school preferences.
We, like most secondary schools, work closely with local primary schools and often invite students to attend our school for various activities. Such visits, however, have nothing to do with the admissions process and do not give any guarantee of a place at the school. Shropshire does not operate a system of feeder schools, as the home address of your child is the arbiter of being offered a place.
In-Year Admissions
We welcome prospective parents and students who are wishing to transfer to Mary Webb School and Science College to visit our school. If you wish to apply for a place at our school, please complete the online application form via this link –
Synergy – Homepage (shropshire.gov.uk) Your application will be processed by the School Admissions Team at Shropshire Council and you will be notified via letter of the outcome of your application.
In all cases, where there are more applications than there are places available, allocations will be made in accordance with our oversubscription criteria. Children with a Education Health and Care Plan which names Mary Webb School as a suitable placement in Section I on their plan will be allocated places. Applications will then be prioritised according to the following criteria:
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Looked after children and all previously looked after children who ceased to be so because they were immediately adopted (or became subject to child arrangement order or special guardianship order)
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Very exceptionally, priority may be given to a child who has a particular health reason requiring them to attend a specific school. This will only be allowed if parents/carers can provide written evidence from a medical professional that in the view of the Admissions Authority confirms that attending that particular school is essential to the medical well-being of the child. The Admission Authority reserves the right to contact medical professionals to ascertain the relevance of the medical condition
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Children living inside the designated catchment area who will have an older sibling at the school on the day they are due to start school.
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Children of staff members who have been continuously employed at the school on a permanent contract, for at least two years at the time of application.
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All other applicants living within the catchment area
- Any places that are left will be offered to children who live outside the catchment area. If there are not enough places for all of them, we will look at the following criteria:
- Priority will be given to children living outside the catchment area who will have an older sibling of compulsory school age at the school on the day they are due to start there.
- Next priority will be given to children living outside the catchment area, who have attended a state-funded primary school that lies within the secondary school’s catchment area, for more than a whole academic year immediately prior to transfer.
- Finally, all other children who live outside the catchment area
