THE entry criteria for 18 Glasgow secondary schools will now change following a public consultation.

As previously reported in the Evening Times, the council planned to make the entry requirements the same for all secondary schools.

Changes will affect 18 secondaries across the city and were passed by the city’s Administration Committee.

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During the consultation there were six public meetings held at various schools, which 19 people attended.

Executive Director of Education Maureen McKenna met with some of the Parent Council from Craigton Primary School.

And around 850 people registered with an online survey to give their views.

The 18 non-delineated secondary schools:

  • All Saints Secondary School
  • Castlemilk High School
  • Cleveden Secondary School
  • Drumchapel High School
  • Govan High School
  • Lochend Community High School
  • Lourdes Secondary School
  • Notre Dame High School
  • Shawlands Academy
  • Smithycroft Secondary School
  • Springburn Academy
  • St Margaret Mary’s Secondary School
  • St Mungo’s Academy
  • St Paul’s High School
  • St Roch’s Secondary School
  • St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School
  • Whitehill Secondary School
  • Glasgow Gaelic School/Sgoil Ghaidhlig Ghlaschu Secondary

Of those responses, 284 came from Notre Dame Secondary School and are described in the committee report as “varied and polarised”.

A separate consultation is to be held about the future of the single-sex school.

Councillor Chris Cunningham, City Convener for Education, Skills and Early Years, said: “The consultations looking at secondary school catchment areas across the city and placing request criteria was the ideal opportunity for all interested parties to make their views known.

“We’ve listened to parents, families and the local community and made changes to a number of the original proposals and that’s reflected in the final report to committee.

“Parents should note that the current placing request criteria stay in place until August 2019.”

Currently, 12 schools are “delineated” , meaning entry is defined by a geographical catchment area.

The other 18 are “nondelineated” and entry to them depends on which primary school a child attends.

Education bosses will make all secondary schools delineated from immediate effect.

The catchment areas for St Roch’s Secondary School, All Saints Secondary School, Springburn Academy, Smithycroft Secondary School and St Stephen’s Primary School will be amended and a small area of shared catchment between Bellahouston Academy and Shawlands Secondary will be created.

The whole of Toryglen Primary School catchment area will be included as part of the delineated catchment of King’s Park Secondary School.

Until August 2025 parents will be allowed a priority placing request into the secondary school that was previously associated with their primary school.