Catchment areas to select students for secondary schools are set to be abolished in Bury. Bury Council is planning to scrap the catchment areas and the associated over subscription criteria giving pupils living in a designated area priority for admission to secondary schools.
The changes, if adopted after a consultation, would come into effect for applications for secondary school places for the academic year 2024/25 and would apply to all secondary schools in the borough.
The current admissions policy for secondary schools provides higher priority to those children who reside within the designated catchment area than children with siblings in the school and children who may live geographically closer, but not within the specified catchment area.
