There are a lot of disappointed parents in Gorton and Abbey Hey who applied to the new East Manchester Academy. The Academy has been extensively marketing itself right across East Manchester, encouraging applications and yet very few seemed to get in.
I am trying to get a breakdown of allocations, but it seems that the Academy was so oversubscribed that except for people with special reasons to get in (category 1, usually involving special needs which can only be met by that school, of looked-after children, category 2, siblings already at the school didn’t apply this year for obvious reasons), the school was filled up by applicants living within 1.273 miles from the school. The fact that the distance went to three decimal places suggests the sheer numbers of applications involved.
It is a great shame for many parents in Abbey Hey who for the first time in years were led to believe that they had a genuine choice of schools. I hope that lessons are learned in future years.
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