Admissions
RESPECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND PRINCIPAL IN RELATION TO ADMISSIONS.
The Board of Governors including the Principal, will apply the criteria if necessary.
The Board of Governors of Dromore Primary School has determined that the following criteria shall be applied in the order set down below in the event of pupils for places in Year 1 being greater than the admissions number. Priority will be given to children resident in Northern Ireland.
ADMISSIONS CRITERIA – YEAR 1
During the admissions procedure when applying the criteria punctual applications will be considered before late applications are considered. The application procedure opens on Friday 10 January 2025 at 12noon (GMT) and an application submitted by the closing date of Friday 24 January 2025 at 12noon (GMT) will be treated as a punctual application. An application received after 12noon (GMT) on 24 January 2025 will be considered as late and applications received after 4pm on Wednesday 29 January 2025 will NOT be processed until after the close of procedure on Monday 7th April 2025. This is also the last date and time for processing a change of preference in exceptional circumstances.
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Children of school age who have brothers or sisters presently enrolled at the school.
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Children of school age who live nearest the school as measured by shortest walking distance.
YEAR 1 ADMISSIONS – AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR
Children who apply to enter the school during the academic year will be considered using the same criteria as for Year 1.
DUTY TO VERIFY
The Board of Governors reserves the right to require such supplementary evidence as it may determine to support or verify information on any application form, e.g. a Birth Certificate.
If the requested evidence is not provided to the Board of Governors by the deadline given, this will result in the withdrawal of an offer of a place. Similarly, if information is supplied which appears to be false or misleading in any material way, the offer of a place will be withdrawn.
WAITING LIST POLICY
The school does not operate a Waiting List Policy.
ADMISSIONS CRITERIA – YEARS 2-7
The Board of Governors of Dromore Primary School has determined that the following criteria shall be applied in the order set down below to all pupils seeking admission to Years 2-7.
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The school shall not cause or permit the number of registered pupils to exceed the school's enrolment number as determined by the Department of Education.
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Pupils for whom their admission would not, in the opinion of the Board of Governors, prejudice the efficient use of the school's resources.
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Pupils for whom their admission would not, in the opinion of the Board of Governors, prejudice the provision of efficient education in the school.
In the event of there being more pupils satisfying the last criterion which can be applied then the Admissions Criteria for Year 1 will apply. The criteria will be applied by the Board of Governors.
