What are 'admissions criteria'?

What are 'admissions criteria'?

Ralph Lucas (Editor, The Good Schools Guide) gives expert video advice on: What kind of admissions criteria might a school apply?; How do schools choose which children to accept?; We don't live in the catchment area of a perfect school, can we still apply? and more...

Every school will have a set of rules by which it chooses its pupils. In the private sector, these can be anything. There's an astonishing variety in the private sector. You just have to live with what they offer. In the state sector, by and large, they are regulated. They can only be particular kinds of criteria and the rules will be set out very clearly in the prospectus, in the local authority documentation. They can vary by schools, but they will all be much the same. You need to study them carefully because they will give you the best possible indication of whether you've got a chance of your child getting into that particular school.