Smallthorne Primary Academy is part of the City Learning Trust. Until the Trust adopts a single Trust-wide Admissions Policy (planned for admissions from September 2027), admissions to Smallthorne Primary Academy continue to be administered by Stoke-on-Trent City Council in accordance with the Local Authority’s coordinated admissions arrangements.
Parents applying for a Reception place should do so through Stoke-on-Trent City Council using the links below.
In-year admissions are also managed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council via the Citizen Portal.
Admissions
Stoke-on-Trent City Council ensures that all children living within a catchment area can be offered a place at a school near to their home.
However, parents can express a preference for a school which is not necessarily local to them. If the preferred school is below its admission limit for the relevant age group then a place will be offered.
Where schools are oversubscribed the priorities for admissions are on the following basis:
- Children cared for by a local authority and children who were previously looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order).
- Children living in the catchment area of the school who have an older brother or sister attending at the time of admission (or at the linked junior school in the case of infant schools).
- Other children living within the catchment area of the school.
- Children living outside the catchment area of the school who have an elder brother or sister at the school at the time of admission (or at the linked junior school in the case of infant schools).
- Children who live nearest to the school as determined by a straight line measurement from the child’s home address point to the main entrance of the
school.
For further information regarding admissions arrangements for Smallthorne Primary Academy, please visit the Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority website.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to arrange an appointment on 01782 235265.
Applying for a Place or a Transfer
Please use the link below for a form to apply for your child’s admission to Smallthorne Primary Academy when they have already begun their education at another school.
https://www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions
Nursery Places
Ofsted says our Nursery and is GOOD and ‘when children join the Nursery classes they settle quickly and enjoy being in school’.
Apply for a place here for a place in our 3-year old Nursery
www.stoke.gov.uk/info/20033/school_admissions
Contact the school for a place in our 2-year old Nursery
Nursery Prospectus:
Road to Nursery
Road to Reception
Admission Arrangements:
Admission Arrangements for Academic Year 26/27
For admissions 27/28 please click here
