Applications for Year R admission for September 2024 open on Tuesday 5th November 2024 and close at midnight on Wednesday 15th January 2025.  

Please click on the link below to apply:

https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/school-places

National Offer Day - Wednesday 16th April 2025

Online applicants will receive an email after 4.00 pm on this day advising them of their offer.  Letters will be sent to those who applied by paper application.

Offer Acceptance/Refusal Deadline - Wednesday 30th April 2025.  This is also the date by which parents should have submitted a Waiting List form.

Reallocation Day - Thursday 22nd May 2025

Primary Determined Scheme for 2025

Appeals - 2025/26

If your child is due to start Primary school in September 2025, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Wednesday, 16 April 2025). You needed to submit your appeal before Tuesday, 20th May 2025 for it to be considered by Friday, 18th July 2025. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education

https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/appealing-a-schools-decision