The Local Authority deals with admissions for all county and controlled schools. If you need more information, please contact the Admissions Office on  0845 075 1007  or visit the West Sussex Admissions website.

If the number of applications for Bourne Community College is within the admission limit (150), places can normally be offered to all who apply. Where there are more applications than the admission limit, places are normally allocated in order of priority as follows:

• Any child with a statement of special educational needs naming the school will automatically be admitted to that school, under Section 324 of the Education Act 1996.
• Looked after children (children in public care)
• Children who need a place at the school on exceptional and compelling social, psychological or medical grounds;
• Children who live in the catchment area with brothers or sisters already at the school and who will still be attending when the child starts*
• Other children who live in the catchment area
• Children who live outside the catchment area with brothers or sisters already at the school and who will still be there when the child starts*
• Other children who live outside the catchment area
  In the case of oversubscription in any category, priority is given to applicants who live nearest the school (measured by a straight line from school to the child’s home address, using Ordnance Survey address point data from a central point in each building)

* Brothers or sisters may be half or step-siblings but must be living permanently at the same address.

West Sussex County Council only gives sibling priority if the older sibling will be in the school at the time of admission i.e. in years 8 – 11 in September 2011. Attendance at a sixth form will not be taken in to account.