Placing requests received prior to 15th March are split into two groups:

• Group A: Pupils resident within the Stirling Council area
• Group B: Pupils resident outwith the Stirling Council area

All applications within Group A are considered prior to looking at Group B.

The following criteria are then used in order to prioritise each group of applications:

• Medical grounds relating to the child making the application, such that the chosen school is the only school that could provide for your child. These have to be supported by documentary evidence from your family doctor and a local health practitioner. The Service Manager (Inclusion) will assess all applications seeking to receive recognition under this category.
• An older brother or sister will be attending the same establishment for the session the application is being made.
• The child is from a family that has exceptional family circumstances or is from a single adult household. You may be asked to support this by suitable documentation.

Please note that we cannot accept solely childcare, transport to school or parental work arrangements under this category.

Under this category the individual circumstances of each application will be considered and a judgement reached by the Education Service.

Where it is not possible to accommodate all requests and two or more applications have equal criteria the final allocation will be by the distance from ordinary residence to the requested school, the nearest getting priority. Distance is measured by the shortest available route and not the shortest distance geographically.