Haberdashers' Adams catchment area
(distance priority)
How catchment works at Haberdashers' Adams
Haberdashers' Adams draws its intake using a designated catchment or distance priority around Newport. To be considered your child first needs to pass Walsall consortium 11+ (GL), which makes them eligible but does not guarantee a place.
After looked-after and Pupil Premium pupils, Newport attendance-area qualifiers are admitted by score, then out-of-area qualifiers by score; boarding is boys-only. The qualifying distance shifts every year with demand, so a postcode that was inside the catchment one year can fall outside it the next.
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Sitting the 11+ for Haberdashers' Adams
Register
Sign up for Walsall consortium 11+ (GL) with the school or local authority, usually by early summer before Year 6 begins.
Sit the test
Your child takes the test in September of Year 6. Results follow in October, before the 31 October secondary application deadline.
Get your place
Pass, then your home distance decides. List Newport schools by preference on the application.
Haberdashers' Adams catchment, your questions answered
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