“Children Looked After”, “Children Previously Looked After” or “Children in Public Care”.  A “looked after child” or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order.  This criterion will apply to children looked after and children who were previously looked after, including those who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted or becoming subject to a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order.

10% (22) of places will be allocated based on the straight line distance measurement provided by Hertfordshire County Council’s computerised mapping system. Hertfordshire County Council’s ‘straight line’ distance measurement system is used for all home to school distance measurements. Distances are measured using a computerised mapping system to two decimal places. The measurement is taken from the ‘AddressBase Premium’ address point of your child’s house to the address point of the school. AddressBase Premium data is a nationally recognised method of identifying the location of schools and individual residences. (NB: Applicants who also qualify under Criterion 3 – 6 will be allocated a place under that criterion, thus maintaining the availability of places to local families).  (Please see full policy)

For the purpose of these arrangements, a “sibling currently on roll at Parmiter’s School" means:
1. A child having at least one parent (or parent by legal adoption) in common with the applicant, or
2. A child related to the applicant as a step-sibling by the intermarriage or civil partnership of one of each of their parents at the date of application, or
3. A non-biological sibling of a child looked after or previously looked after and, in all cases, living permanently in the same house as the applicant, Monday to Friday at the time of application.

The Academy Trust will admit multiple birth students when a single multiple birth child is allocated a place at Parmiter’s School and the other multiple birth children have applied but not qualified for a place.  In the event that the qualifying child does not accept the allocated place, then the place offered to the other children will be withdrawn. In each instance, all children must live permanently within the same household as the qualifying child from Monday to Friday in order to be offered a place. From the point of the second round of continuing interest, the Academy Trust will admit over the school’s published admission number in order to accommodate such places.  (Please see full policy)

The staff member must have been:
1. Employed by Parmiter’s School for more than a 0.5FTE permanent contract, or consecutive fixed-term one-year contracts, for two or more years at the time of application, or
2. Recruited to fill a vacant post.  (Please see full policy)

Up to 25% (54) of places shall be available in merit order by reference to academic ability. In order to be considered under this criterion, a verbal reasoning test and a mathematics test must have been taken, the results of which will be used to assess academic ability. No minimum score will be required to gain admission, places being offered strictly in descending order of each applicant's standardised test score. Preparation for the tests is unnecessary. The tests are administered by the SW Herts Consortium (Parmiter's School, Watford Boys' Grammar School, Watford Girls' Grammar School, Rickmansworth School, Queens' School, Croxley Danes School and St Clement Danes School) and registration for the tests must have been made by the deadline. 

Up to 10% (21) of places to be allocated on the basis of proven aptitude in Music, to be determined by prescribed tests. In order to be considered under this criterion, a written test of musical aptitude and a practical music assessment must have been taken.
The first stage written musical aptitude test is of approximately 40 minutes' duration and does not require any previous knowledge of music or music theory. There will be 60 questions in total, in four sections: pitch, rhythm, texture and melody. Further details are to be found at the end of these notes. Applicants who achieve the qualifying mark in the test will be invited back for a second stage practical music assessment to perform a single piece on their chosen instrument or vocally. This will be a free choice of piece, which should last no longer than three minutes. As there is a free choice 

Remaining places will be allocated on the basis of proximity to the school.