Determined Admission Arrangements for Community and Voluntary Controlled Primary Schools for 2024/25
7. Waiting lists for all year groups
Waiting lists for VC & C Schools will be maintained for all year groups. Parents must request that their child is added to the waiting list, children will not automatically be added to them. All applicants have the right of appeal against any refusal of a place. The existence of a waiting list does not remove this right from any unsuccessful applicant.
The position on the waiting list will be determined by applying the published over-subscription criteria and not by date order of receipt. This will mean a position will change if a later application is received from someone with higher priority according to the oversubscription criteria.
Waiting lists for all year groups will close on the last day of the summer term in July 2024.
Parents may submit a fresh application for the next academic year group which will be submitted 8 weeks in advance of the required date.
Places that become available will not be offered to pupils who are not on the waiting list.
If a child is offered a place from the waiting list for any VC or C school, then the place must be accepted or declined within 10 working days of the date of offer. The child must start at the school within date specified in the letter.
Notes:
- Names will only be removed from a waiting list, if a written request is received or if the offer of a place that becomes available is declined.
- Registration of interest on a school's pre-admission list will not be considered as an application for a school place
- Parents must contact any VA, F school or the Academy concerned to obtain information on of a waiting list and or maintenance of a waiting list.
- Except for service families, children will not be considered to be living within the designated area for a school until the LA receives an exchange of contracts or a signed tenancy agreement of a minimum of six months.
- Except for service families, children will not be considered to be a sibling unless their brother or sister is attending the school and is expected to still be in attendance at the chosen start date.