Parent Tours for September 2026 entry will take place between October and December 2025.  Please contact the school office in late September 2025 for further information.

The Local Authority, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) co-ordinates admissions. 

Admission form - All enquiries regarding admissions to our school or an appeal for a school place should be made direct to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Admissions Department. 

Starting School 

Children can start school the September following their 7th birthday (in Year 3).

For further guidance on admissions and starting school please refer to the following information which can be found on the RBWM School Admissions homepage.

More information can be found at https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/schools-and-education

If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements below.

Admissions criteria for Furze Platt Junior school

Please refer to RBWM’s online Schools Directory for this school's website links and contact details.
RBWM is the responsible body for admission arrangements at Furze Platt Junior School.

RBWM strives to ensure fair allocations of school places according to criteria that have been set in advance. Where a school receives more applications than there are places, the following are the criteria that will be applied to determine which children should be offered places. When allocating places, the RBWM admissions staff will start at the highest category (Criterion 1) and begin allocating places.
If all children in the category are offered places, and there are places remaining, we continue to the next highest category. This process continues until all the places available at the school in this year group are allocated. When there are more children in a category than there are places remaining, the places will usually be offered based on the distance between the school and the home address.
A child who is the subject of an EHCP will be admitted to the school named therein. Remaining places will be allocated in line with the published oversubscription criteria.

The criteria for community and voluntary controlled schools of which Furze Platt Junior School is one

The oversubscription criteria for these schools are, in descending order:
1. Looked-after children or a child who was previously looked-after. This category includes a looked-after child or a child who was previously looked-after but immediately after being in care became adopted or subject to a child arrangement order or special = guardianship order, including children 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.
2. Children with exceptional medical or social reasons for requiring the school.
3. Junior schools only – Children attending a linked infant school [Note 3]
4. Children who live in the ‘designated appropriate area’ of the school [Note 1] and who have a sibling who attends the school [Note 2]
5. Children who live in the ‘designated appropriate area’ of the school [Note 1]
6. Children who have a sibling who attends the school [Note 2]
7. Children of a member of staff [Note 4]
8. Children whose parents have any other reason for their preference

RBWM Tiebreaker
If a school does not have places for all the children in a particular category, the borough prioritises those applicants who live closest to the school. Proximity to the school will be measured in a straight line from the address point of the pupil’s house as determined by Ordnance Survey to the address point of the school using the local authority’s GIS system. In the event that two or more children live at the same distance from the school (for example families living in flats) and there are fewer places available then random allocation will be used to decide which child will be allocated the remaining place(s). The names will be drawn and the whole process scrutinised by persons independent of the authority.

Note 1: Designated appropriate areas
Maps of the current designated areas may be viewed on the RBWM website. Alternatively, RBWM applicants can use the Neighbourhood View facility on this website for information on schools based on their address.
Note 2: Sibling criterion
A sibling would need to be attending the school at the time of admission of the child for whom a place is sought. The term ‘sibling’ includes a half or stepchild permanently living in the same family unit or a foster child permanently living in the same family unit whose place has been arranged by the social services department of a local authority. Sibling eligibility will flow from a foster child to other children of the family or from a child of the family to a foster child.

In the case of Furze Platt Junior school, attendance of a sibling at either the Infant or Junior school qualifies as a sibling for the linked school. Linked schools are described in Note 3.
Note 3: Infant and Junior linked-school priority
● Furze Platt Junior is formally linked with Furze Platt Infant (Furze Platt Primary Federation)
Note 4: Children of a member of staff
Priority will be given where the member of staff:
● has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made; and/or
● is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.

Designated appropriate area

Every address within the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead falls within the designated appropriate area for certain schools. You can find the designated appropriate area for a specific address by using The Royal Borough Neighbourhood View or Neighbourhood Map online facilities or by viewing the 'Admissions Designated Appropriate Area' document below.

The Council strives to ensure fair allocations of school places according to criteria that have been set in advance. Where a school receives more applications than there are places, the following are the criteria that will be applied to determine which children should be offered places.

Further information regarding the admissions criteria for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead primary schools can be found via RBWM School Admissions Homepage.

How and When to Apply

The Local Education Authority deals with all admissions. 
Contact them on 01628 683870 
or Email: school.admissions@rbwm.org.uk 

The Local Authority are only offering places once per academic year. All forms should be returned to the Admissions Department each January for entry into school for September of the same year.

Appeals

The Local Education Authority deals with all appeals.

Contact them on 01628 683870 
or Email: school.admissions@rbwm.org.uk