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Admissions: Public Consultation

Admissions: Public Consultation, St. Paul's Academy

Consultation Process:

St Benedict Catholic Academy Trust is the admissions authority for all Trust academies.  We are consulting on a change to the published admission number for one of our school’s:

St Paul’s Academy, Abbey Wood

Under the School Admissions Code when changes are proposed to admission arrangements, all admission authorities must consult on their admission arrangements that will apply for admission applications the following school year.

Consultation must last for a minimum of 6 weeks and must take place between 1 October 2025 and 31 January 2026.

The admissions authority must determine admissions arrangements by 28 February 2026 and publish them on its website by 15 March 2026.

Comments

As part of the consultation process, we invite comments from the following groups:

  • Parents of children between the ages of two and eighteen;
  • Other persons in the relevant area who have an interest in the proposed admissions (stakeholders);
  • All other admissions authorities within the relevant area;
  • The Local Authority (Royal Borough of Greenwich);
  • All other admissions authorities within the local area; and
  • The body or person representing the religion or religious determination.

Proposed Changes

Published Admissions Number (PAN)

St Benedict Catholic Academy Trust proposes a reduction to the Published Admission Number (PAN) for entry into Year 7 at St Paul’s Academy.

  • The current PAN for Year 7 is 210 (equivalent to 7 Forms of Entry).
  • The proposed PAN for Year 7 is 180 (equivalent to 6 Forms of Entry).

This reduction of 30 places per year group is necessary to address changing demographic patterns across the Royal Borough of Greenwich and to ensure the long-term financial sustainability and high quality of education delivered by the school.

The decision to propose a PAN reduction is based on robust data regarding local pupil place planning forecasts.

Distribution of Places

The current admissions arrangements account for the following distribution of places:

  • Up to 140 places for Catholic and other Faith Entrants
  • Up to 70 places for Community Entrants

The proposed distribution of places under the new PAN is:

  • Up to 120 places for Catholic and other Faith Entrants
  • Up to 60 places for Community Entrants

This retains the current proportion of distribution of places with two thirds for Catholic and other Faith Entrants and one third for Community Entrants.

Additional Children

The number of additional children admitted in instances where children are twins and children from multiple births will change from the 210th to the 180th child admitted, in line with the new PAN.

Submission of Feedback

Our preferred method of contact is via email.  You are invited to submit comments about the proposal to:

Post:  if you do not have access to email you can write to:  Samantha Dossetter, C/O St Benedict Catholic Academy Trust, Interchange Building 1st Floor, 81-85 Station Road, London, England, Croydon CR0 2RD.

Consultation Period

The consultation period will run between Friday 03 December 2025 and Friday 30 January 2026. 

All comments must be received by 11.59pm on Friday 30 January 2026.

Your views are important to us and will be taken into consideration before any final decisions are made.