Part III School admissions
Chapter II Selection of pupils
Partial selection
100 Permitted selection: pre-existing arrangements.
(1)
Where at the beginning of the 1997-98 school year the admission arrangements for a maintained school made provision for selection by ability or by aptitude (and they have at all times since that date continued to do so), the admission arrangements for the school may continue to make such provision F1so long as—
(a)
the proportion of selective admissions in any relevant age group does not exceed the permitted proportion (as defined by subsection (1A)), and
(b)
there is no significant change in the basis of selection.
F2(1A)
In subsection (1)(a), “the permitted proportion”, in relation to any relevant age group, means the lowest proportion of selective admissions provided for by the school's admission arrangements at any time since the beginning of the 1997-1998 school year.
(2)
In relation to any time before the appointed day, the reference in subsection (1) to a maintained school is a reference to the school as a county, voluntary or grant-maintained school within the meaning of the M1Education Act 1996.
(3)
In this section “the proportion of selective admissions”, in relation to a relevant age group, means the proportion of the total number of pupils admitted to the school in that age group (determined in the prescribed manner) which is represented by the number of pupils so admitted by reference to ability or to aptitude (as the case may be).
(4)
Nothing in this section applies to a school with selective admission arrangements (as defined by section 104(2)).