ADMISSIONS INFORMATION and application process 

Determined Admissions Arrangements for 2027/28

Entry Criteria  

St Clement Danes School Sixth Form encourages applications from pupils currently at St Clement Danes School as well as pupils from other institutions. All existing St Clement Danes Year 11 pupils who apply for a place in the Sixth Form are eligible for a place if they achieve the following minimum criteria. Pupils in Year 11 at other schools wishing to enter our Sixth Form will need to fulfil the same criteria. To be eligible for entry into Year 12, pupils must, as a minimum:  

• Attain at least a grade 5 in English Language or English Literature GCSE  

• Attain at least a grade 5 in Mathematics GCSE.  

• Attain grade 5 or above in at least three other subjects at GCSE. 

• Attain the subject specific grade requirements and relevant GCSE Best 9 average point score to access their 3 chosen Level 3 courses; the specific subject and pathway entry requirements for each qualification are to be found on the 'Pathways System' section of the online Prospectus here and in the Subject Entry requirements section here.

Admissions Numbers 

i. All students in Year 11 at St Clement Danes School who apply for a place in the Sixth Form and who meet the academic entry criteria are entitled to a place in the St Clement Danes Sixth Form. 

ii. The minimum number of external applicants to be admitted is 25. The upper limit of successful Year 12 external applicants will be based, not on total Year 12 numbers projected for the following academic year, but on the planned capacity in a given subject or course.  

Offers and Admissions Process 

i. A Sixth Form Open Afternoon for external applicants will be held on Saturday 26th September 2026 and an Open Evening for internal applicants in November 2026. These dates will be confirmed in the local press and on the school website. 

ii. External applicants must complete their Sixth Form Application by following the link on the Sixth Form Admissions page of the St Clement Danes website. Internal applicants will be emailed a link to the application form through their school email address. The deadline for all applications is Friday 5th February 2027. 

iii. Internal applicants will receive guidance meetings on subjects and pathways prior to completing their Sixth Form application. Where internal applicants’ predicted grades do not meet our admissions requirements, additional guidance and support will be given on possible alternative post-16 options, whilst also ensuring that these pupils are aware that, should they meet the entry requirements for the Sixth Form and their chosen subjects, a place will be available for them. Where internal applicants' predicted grades do meet our Sixth Form admissions requirements, they too will be made aware that any Sixth Form place will be subject to their gaining these requirements when GCSE results are published.

iv. External applicants will receive conditional offers for places in St Clement Danes Sixth Form where planned capacity in chosen subjects is not reached as a result of internal applications. The school reserves the right to refuse access to a subject when planned classes are full. If, after GCSE Results Day, spaces become available in those subjects due to lower than expected internal pupil uptake, these subjects will be advertised on the school website. All conditional offers and applications made after GCSE Results Days are subject to the Oversubscription Criteria stated below. 

v. External applicants who receive a conditional offer will be required to accept this offer within the application software program by a date stated in their conditional offer. Should an applicant fail to accept the offer by this date the school may withdraw the conditional offer of a place in the Sixth Form.

vi: Both internal and external applicants holding a conditional offer will be invited to attend our Sixth Form Taster Day. The provisional date for this is 22nd June 2027; this date will be confirmed later in the year as it is subject to examination window changes.  

vii. When GCSE results have been received in August 2027, all internal and external applicants with Sixth Form offers who have met the entry criteria and who wish to take up a place at St Clement Danes Sixth Form, will be invited to confirm their GCSE results by 3pm on GCSE Results Day. External applicants must submit their results via the online admissions system. Should a student fail to meet this deadline, the school may withdraw the offer of a place in the Sixth Form. 

viii. Should St Clement Danes Sixth Form have additional spaces available, this fact will be advertised on the school website on the day after GCSE Results Day, and any student meeting the entry criteria will be welcome to apply, subject to the Oversubscription Criteria stated below. 

Allocation of Places and Oversubscription Criteria for external applicants 

In recent years, St Clement Danes School Sixth Form has been oversubscribed. In the event that  there are more qualified external applicants than the minimum number of places available for external admissions, places will be awarded in the following order of priority. In all cases applicants must meet the Sixth Form entry requirements. 

i. Looked After Children/ Previously Looked After Children 

Looked after children will be prioritised under this criterion. Priority will also be given to children  who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted, or became subject to a  child arrangement order or a special guardianship order. Children who were not “looked after”  immediately before being adopted, or made the subject of a child arrangement order or special  guardianship order, will not be prioritised under this criterion.  

Children previously looked after from abroad who were cared for by the state because he or she  would not otherwise have been cared for adequately and subsequently adopted.  Applications for children who have been adopted but were previously looked after abroad (not by an English or Welsh local authority) will be considered under this rule and accepted if the child’s  previously looked after status and adoption is confirmed. 

The St Clement Danes definition is that given within Section 4 “Educational achievement in England”  of The Children & Social Work Act 2017 for “relevant children”: (a) to have been in state care in a  place outside England and Wales because he or she would not otherwise have been cared for  adequately, and (b) to have ceased to be in that state care as a result of being adopted. A child is in  “state care” if he or she is in the care of, or accommodated by: (a) a public authority, (b) a religious  organisation, or (c) any other organisation the sole or main purpose of which is to  benefit society.  

All applications are considered individually but a successful application should include evidence that  the child was previously cared for by the state abroad because he or she would not otherwise have  been cared for adequately and has been subsequently adopted.

ii.Children of staff employed by the Trustees of Danes Educational Trust at St Clement Danes School  (excluding Central Services Staff) will be allocated a place if either or all of the following conditions  are met:  

a) Where a member of staff has been employed by the Trustees of Danes Educational Trust at St Clement Danes School (excluding Central Services Staff) under a contract of employment for a  continuous period of two or more years at the time the application is made. 

b)Where the Governors can demonstrate that the member of staff has been recruited to fill a vacant position for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage.  

In addition to either (a) or (b) the child must live at the same permanent address as the member of staff. 

iii. Places will then be allocated to applicants in distance order between the family’s normal home address and the school. In the event of two applicants living an equal distance from the school (e.g. in a block of flats) the applicants will be ranked numerically by house door number, the lower number taking priority. If the applicants live at equal distances, but in different locations, the place will be allocated by independently verified random allocation.  

All applications to St Clement Danes' Sixth Form are made through the “Applicaa” online enrolment platform into which all applicants are required to enter their home address and postcode. Home-school distance is measured using Applicaa’s Distance Calculation feature. This calculates the distance between an applicant’s home and St Clement Danes’ school transparently and accurately. This calculation is based on the latitude and longitude of the position of our school gates and the  latitude and longitude of a student’s home address using the official coordinates provided by the  Royal Mail’s address database. The “Applicaa” system uses the Haversine calculation which  produces an ‘as-the-crow-flies’ calculation which takes into account the curvature of the earth when  calculating distances. For more information on the formulae used, you can visit this  website:https://www.rubydoc.info/github/alexreisner/geocoder/Geocoder%2FCalculations:distance _between 

The Governors will meet their legal obligation to allocate a place to an applicant who has an  Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names St Clement Danes School. These children will be admitted as part of the schools’ published admissions number before the oversubscription criteria are used. 

Places will be offered using the oversubscription criteria until planned capacity in a given subject or course is reached and the school reserves the right to refuse access to subjects when planned classes are full.  

Closing Dates 

Internal applications received by the closing date will be considered before all subsequent external applications. There will be no formal offer letter to internal pupils as all St Clement Danes Year 11 pupils are entitled to a place in the Sixth Form as long as the entry requirements are achieved. 

Sixth Form applications should be submitted by Friday 5th February 2027. All post-application communication, including any queries after GCSE Results Day, must be made by email to sixthformadmissions@scd.herts.sch.uk. Please note that applications from pupils wishing to repeat Year 12 will not be considered. Please also note that it is the Governors’ policy that pupils will be taught within their normal age group. Applications from pupils outside their normal age group will only be considered if a valid statement explaining extenuating personal circumstances is submitted with the application.  

For external pupils who are given conditional offers of entry to our Sixth Form for Autumn 2027, the Governors of the school may withdraw an offer of a place if an applicant has failed to confirm their GCSE results and their uptake of a place by 3pm on GCSE Results Day. Similarly, the Governors will withdraw a place that has been offered on the basis of a fraudulent or intentionally misleading application from a parent or pupil. If an application is refused, there is a statutory right of appeal.  Further details of the appeal procedure will be provided with the letter explaining why the  application has been refused. Appeals against non-admissions may be lodged by the parent or the pupil.