Consultation on School Catchment Area Changes for Northern Infant and Junior School and Red Barn Primary School

Discussions are taking place with the schools about the proposed changes to the schools’ catchment areas.

Consultation on admissions priority for children living in new housing developments at Downend Road

This new housing development (Land to the East of Downend Road) currently sits in the catchment area for Red Barn Primary School. It is proposed that an amendment is made to the current arrangements with the new housing East of Downend Road being incorporated fully into the catchment area of Northern Infant and Junior Schools.

This proposal, if approved, removes the area shown on the map from the catchment of Red Barn Primary School and includes them within the catchment area of Northern Infant and Junior Schools; any children living in the new housing within the Land to the East of Downend Road development and in a small number of existing houses within the Land to the East of Downend Road development will be part of the new catchment arrangements from September 2024.

For families in the affected area with children already in Red Barn Primary School the following transitional arrangement will be put in place:

• Children starting school for the first time who have a sibling on roll at Red Barn Primary School (who was on roll prior to the catchment change and who will still be attending the school at the time of the younger child’s admission), will be given catchment priority for Red Barn Primary School up to and including admission in September 2027.

It is therefore proposed that the catchment boundaries be redrawn for school admissions from September 2024 onwards.

Proposed Catchment Change Map

Further Information

Subject to approval the catchment change will be implemented for September 2023 admissions. Should the catchment change be implemented all details will be updated in the schools admission policies and on Hampshire County Council web pages to reflect this change.

Any comments on these proposals should be sent to Glenn Parkinson, Strategic Development Officer, Children’s Services Department, Hampshire County Council, Elizabeth II Court North, The Castle, Winchester, SO23 8UG or by email to [email protected] no later than 17 August 2022. Any comments received will be considered as part of the statutory consultation on admission arrangements which takes place between 14 November 2022 and 30 December 2022. A final decision which takes account of the statutory admissions consultation will be made by the Executive Member for Education on 21 February 2023. Details of the statutory admissions process can be viewed via the web link provided from 14 November 2022.