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Years 7 Admissions for September 2023

If you would like your child to start at Sandy Secondary School in Year 7 in September 2024, then please go to the following website and complete the Transfer to Secondary online by 31st October 2023:

September 2024: The link to the admission page is included here

If you need a paper copy of this form, please call the School’s Admissions Team on 0300 300 8037, and they will send one to you.

All forms for admission into Year 7 must be completed and returned to Central Bedfordshire Council by 31st October 2023.

Students transfer to Sandy Secondary School at the start of Year 7. Our students come from a number of local primary and secondary schools. The majority of our students transfer to our Sixth Form and we also welcome applications from external applicants. In addition to the normal transfer point, we welcome in-year admissions. Initial contact can be made through the school or directly through Central Bedfordshire Local Authority.

Sixth Form Admission

Sixth Form Admission

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Central Bedfordshire School admissions

Bedford Borough School admissions

If the number of places in a year group at the school is not sufficient to meet the requests of all the parents, then the following County criteria will be applied (in the rank order shown) to determine how the places will be allocated:

  1. To children ‘looked after’ in the care of Central Bedfordshire Council or resident within the catchment area;

  2. To students living in the catchment area;

  3. To other children ‘looked after’;

  4. On ‘very exceptional’ medical grounds;

  5. To siblings of students currently attending the school;

  6. To any other children

Admissions Policy 2020-21

Admissions Policy 2022-23

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