If you are interested in your child joining the college, please contact us to discuss what we have to offer and to arrange a visit.
Main Reception telephone number: 01752 779051
Email address: [email protected]
Once you decide you would like a place you must make a formal application. A fresh application must be made for children who are not moving on from our Year 11 to Post-16 education in Year 12 here.
How to apply
Most children join our school at the normal round, the main intake into school from the start of September in Year 7. As a parent, you can apply for a place to the Local Authority. Do come and talk with us if you are interested in a place in a different year group for any reason.
For questions about your child joining the school or the admissions process in general, please do not hesitate to contact the school direct or contact Plymouth CAST by email to Rose Colpus-Fricker (Chief Operating Officer) [email protected]
If you are interested in your child joining the school in-year (once the academic year has started), you can apply for a place through the relevant Local Authority. Applications for transfer into Years 12 and 13 are made direct to our sixth form, either by a parent or the young person themselves. Our application form is below. We have a closing date for the main intake into Year 12 although applications can still be made afterwards.
There is a right of appeal and to a place on a waiting list for places where an application is refused.
Admission Arrangements
Plymouth CAST is the admissions authority for our school. It has responsibility for the admissions policies and decisions on applications for admission. We have an admissions policy for each academic year, and they will be published on this page when they are proposed for consultation and after they have been determined annually. They are written to comply with the School Admissions Code 2021 and School Admissions Appeals Code 2022.
Our Admissions Policies
You can find our admissions policies below – we review the school policy annually and may make changes if we feel this would be in the best interests of the school and our community. Each academic year has its own policy document, with details about how to apply for a place in school.
Please find our Admission Information below related to the following application circumstances:
- If you are applying to St Boniface for a place for your Son to start in September 2025
- If your Son is already attending a secondary school but you would like to apply to St boniface for a place in Years 7-11 during the academic year 2024-25.
School admissions policy 2026-27
See our determined policy below. If you have any comments regarding the policy, you can contact us at [email protected]
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Priority will be given to Catholic looked after and previously looked after children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order including those who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
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Priority will next be given to other Catholic children
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Priority will next be given to other looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order including those who appear to the admission authority to have been in state care outside England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted
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Priority will next be given to children who have an exceptional social or medical need which means they should attend this school rather than any other (or whose parents have such a need). An application must be supported by evidence from a medical specialist or social worker of the need and why it means the child needs to attend this school
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Priority will next be given to Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church
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Priority will next be given to children who are siblings of pupils on roll at this school or at St Boniface’s Catholic College
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Priority will next be given to children at a named linked school
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Priority will next be given to children who are members of other Christian denominations who regularly attend a Christian church
- Priority will next be given to children of members of staff8 who have been employed at this school9 for more than two years or recruited within the past two years to fill a vacancy for which there was a skills shortage. [The applicant must complete a Children of Staff Supplementary Information Form, supported by evidence from a medical specialist or social worker, explaining the need and why it necessitates the child’s attendance at this school.]
- Priority will next be given to other children.
Supplementary Information Forms