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<p>All schools with academy status, including grammar schools which are academies,
may give priority in their admissions arrangements to disadvantaged children (ie those
eligible for the pupil premium). The freedom granted through the funding agreement,
allows these grammar schools to lawfully implement oversubscription criteria prioritising
disadvantaged children within their admission arrangements, should they wish to do
so. It is for the individual grammar schools to decide whether or not to adopt this
priority within their own oversubscription criteria. To date, we understand 32 grammar
schools have prioritised disadvantaged children in their arrangements and a further
65 intend to consult on doing so.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Maintained schools
– including maintained grammars – can currently adopt this freedom if they are granted
a Power to Innovate Order. However, we have revised the School Admissions Code to
allow all state-funded schools to adopt a pupil premium priority, should they wish
to do so. Subject to parliamentary approval the revised Code will come into force
in December 2014.</p><p> </p>
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