Year 8 Admissions Criteria for September 2022

RESPECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND PRINCIPAL IN RELATION TO ADMISSIONS

The Christian Brothers’ Grammar School, Omagh is a Catholic grammar school for boys which serves the community of the local area as indicated by the list of feeder primary schools. This school wishes to accept boys who are academically suited for the type of education it offers and whose parents/guardians are in agreement with the ethos and aims of the school. The Board of Governors has delegated the responsibilities for the task of applying the criteria as indicated below to a Transfer Sub Committee, which includes the School Principal.

Applications made in a particular academic year will be considered only for entry in that year. Thereafter, applicants will be required to make a new application for any subsequent year. A waiting list of applicants who made an initial application for admission in 2022 will be held until Friday 9^th September 2022. Thereafter, parents/guardians who wish their child to be considered, should a place become available, must make a new application.

ADMISSIONS CRITERIA 2022

Sub-Criteria

• For the application of the Admissions Criteria, if there are more boys who meet one of the criteria than there are places available, then the remaining criteria will become sub-criteria and applied successively in the order set out until the final selection is completed.
• Therefore, the criteria further down the ranking list serve as sub-criteria or tiebreakers for the admissions process.

1. Preference will be given to boys who give the Christian Brothers’ Grammar School Omagh as their first-choice school on the Application
2. Boys with a brother who is currently a pupil or was a past pupil of the Christian Brothers’ Grammar School Omagh or has been selected for admission to the school in the coming school
3. Boys who are from traditional feeder primary schools listed
4. Boys who at the date of their application are the eldest of the family to be eligible to apply for admission to the school.
5. Boys who are entitled to Free School Meals. “Entitled to Free School Meals” will mean applicants who are listed on the Education Authority register as entitled to Free School Meals. The last date for parents to communicate to the Education Authority their entitlement to free school meals is no later than 4pm on 9 March 2022.
6. Boys with a parent currently on the permanent staff of the Christian Brothers’ Grammar School Omagh or a member of the Board of Governors of the
7. Boys who have a parent or grandparent who is a past pupil of the Christian Brothers’ Grammar School Omagh and where verifiable evidence has been
8. Boys ranked by date of birth as entered on the Birth Certificate with the eldest being admitted
9. In the event of two or more boys having the same date of birth and thereby qualifying for the last place(s), the boys will be ranked by alphabetical order of surname and then forenames as listed on the birth certificate.
10. If following this procedure there are still two or more boys with the same surname and forenames as appear on their birth certificates, then applicants will be admitted by Computerised Random

List of Feeder Primary Schools for the Christian Brothers Omagh

Verification of all Information

The Board of Governors reserves the right to require such supplementary evidence as it may determine to support or verify information on the Transfer Application or appended to the Transfer Application by parents/guardians. For verification purposes original documents are required and not photocopies.

The provision of false or incorrect information or the failure to provide any further requested verifying documents within a deadline set by the Christian Brothers’ Grammar School will result in either the withdrawal of a place or the inability of the school to offer a place.

It is the responsibility of parents/guardians to ensure that:

• The Transfer Application and other necessary documentation is correctly
• Any Special Provision being claimed is properly documented as described in detail above and in the guidance documentation available from our
• The provision of any verification documents required is the responsibility of the parents/ guardians of the child and should be provided within specified

Failure to ensure that this occurs may lead to any request for special circumstances not being considered and/or the application not being considered by the Board of Governors and/or the withdrawal of a place in the school.

NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS AND ADMISSIONS

*Total Admissions includes statemented pupils and/or pupils admitted following an appeal.

Admissions Criteria for Years 9 and upwards are available by contacting the school.