Admissions

If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements below.

Essex Statutory Admissions Policy:

Address: School Road, Monkwick, Colchester CO2 8NN
Telephone: (01206) 575399
Email: office@monkwickjunior.school
Application Website: essex.gov.uk/admissions
Headteacher: Miss R McCutcheon
Community: (Co-educational) 7–11
School Number: 881-2165
Published admission number 2024/2025: 60
Number on roll: 242

Admissions Policy:

There is no guarantee of a place for children living in the priority admission area.

Where applications for admissions exceed the number of places available, the following criteria will be applied in the order set out below:

1. Looked after children and previously looked after children.
   Children with a sibling attending the school or a sibling attending
2. Monkwick Infant and Nursery School who will still be on roll at the date of admission.
3. Children who reside within the Priority Admission Area.
4. Children who attend Monkwick Infant and Nursery School.
5. Children of staff; where a member of staff has been employed for two or more years at the time of the application and / or a member of staff is recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage.
6. Within each of the above criteria, proximity of the home to school will be taken into consideration, with those living nearer being accorded the higher priority. (Straight-line distance between home and school will be used as a tie breaker with those living closest to the school having highest priority.)