Admissions Information and Policy

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Proposed Admission policy Sept 2027 Start (Determine)

Admissions Policy 2026 - 2027 (Determine)

Admissions Policy 2025 - 2006

Application Process

Summary of offers for Bolton Muslim Girls' School September 2025 Start

Bolton Muslim Girls School Planned Admission Number 170

There were 422 preferences expressed for the school. Not all children could be offered a place; any child refused a place where BMGS is a higher preference than the school offered will be kept on the waiting list. For further information about admissions please contact the school.

HOW PLACES WERE ALLOCATED

NUMBER OF CHILDREN

EHCP Any child with an Educational Healthcare plan.

Criteria 1

Looked after girls or a girl who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the schools to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

Criteria 2

Sibling- girls or a girl who have named the school as a preference and have a sibling attending the school provided that the sibling is in year 7-10 at the time of application and will continue to attend BMGS the following year.

Criteria 3

Girls or a girl who permanently resides within one of the following catchment areas in the following priority order

Catchment Area	Percentage of Places (see note iii)
Rumworth Electoral Ward	36% = 32
Heaton & Lostock Electoral Ward	16% =9
Hulton Electoral Ward	16% = 8
Astley Bridge Electoral Ward	10% = 4
Halliwell Electoral Ward	10% = 4
Great Lever Electoral Ward	7% = 2
Queens Park Electoral Ward	5% = 2

Criteria 4

Girls or a girl whose parent/carer is a member of staff employed on a permanent contract by the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made the two-year qualification period may be waived if a post is hard to fill due to a demonstrable skill shortage.

Criteria 5

Girls or a girl for whom the Governing Body accepts that they have proven, exceptionally medical or social circumstances, which are directly relevant to attendance at Bolton Muslim Girls’ School.

Criteria 6

Any other girls on the basis of distance from school as defined in note vi.(see admissions policy)

Places available