Place at high school if parent works there?

[Cocoadoodle]

Is it true that if you work in a school your child is more likely to get a place there?
A family member works as a teacher at a local high school. They live quite far out of the catchment zone but say their DS will get a place there purely due to the fact that his parent works there.
Does that sound correct? I wonder if it’s a policy of their school or a general thing.

It is permitted under the admissions code, but has to be in the school's admission criteria.
Our local school has it. It can help with teacher/other staff recruitment/retainment.

tt depends on the admission criteria of the individual school, you'd need to check.

In my state school children of staff are given priority- it is in the admission criteria.

It depends on the schools admission criteria.

Depends on the school, but yes, it's a thing round here. Encourages good staff to apply for roles

Thanks for your insights. Does it matter what the job role is? Does it have to be as a teacher? This piece of information could be very valuable to someone else I know, so thank you.

Depends on the school - could be just teachers or all school staff. You can look up the admissions criteria on the school website.

It all depends what is written in the particular schools admission criteria.

It depends on the admissions code for that school, which should be publicly available.

i used to work in an admin role in a school. There were 5 places reserved for staff children. (While I worked there, this policy was brought in, it wasn’t in the code before). It didn’t matter what role you did in the school, but if there were more than 5 places applied for from staff, priority would be given based on how long the parent had worked at the school. The staff place form had to be submitted before you applied via the council, and you had to also do the council application.

Just look the schools admissions policy on their website.

No it doesn't always matter and will be down to the individual school.

Some schools have more difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff than others.

DDs school goes Catchment, Staff, Sibling, Feeder school, other.

Its just a few children each year, if any.

Quite normal for schools to do this regardless of role but obviously depends on the admissions policy.

Yes, if stated in the school's admissions criteria. It might stipulate that staff should have worked for two years before applying. It's to help retain staff.

Well, it'll be ehcp and looked after first...

Shouldn't have to be a teacher, no. But some staff might it be counted as employees, if they're working through contracted services, such as catering or cleaning.

Our school doesn’t. But the next one along does. You need to look up the specific admissions code for the school

It doesn't work this way at my DC's state secondary in the NE. Children of staff do not get priority (I know a teacher who works there and the family had to move closer to the school so their DDs would get a place)

Obviously. They aren't categories you can opt into though, unlike the rest.

As everyone else has said, it depends on the school and their admissions code. In my school it’s any member of staff, not necessarily teaching staff.

The 2 schools I have worked at, and the schools local to me all have it as the 3rd admission in their policy. Staff must have worked there for 2 years prior to the student starting and no requirement on what the member of staff does. Most have a caveat that for teachers in shortage subjects the 2 years doesn't matter.

It depends on the school.

At my DDs school it's all staff's children, but at DS's it's only staff who are in difficult or hard to fill roles (the list changes every few years)

Schools are allowed to include this in their Admissions Arrangements as per the Admissions Code statutory guidance. It supports recruitment and retention in a sector where there’s very limited scope/resources for this. Often only kicks in when they have worked there for two years before the applications deadline, but for all staff - not just teachers. Tends not to be very many children at all.