Secondary school appeals

We will try to offer you the school place you most want, but may not be able to do this. If more people want places at a school than the school has room for, it uses its admission criteria to put children in priority order to decide which of them should be offered places. We use these lists, together with your list of preferred schools, to make the highest offer possible.

If you want to appeal for a place at any (or all) of the schools you asked for but were not offered, download our appeal information and appeal form (PDF 920kb).

Note:  Since the preparation of our forms and letters, the School Admission Appeals Code 2012 has become law. It sets out a timetable which allows appeals received after Kent’s original deadlines to be treated as “on time”.

The new timetable is set out below:

September 2012 entry

Appeals resulting from year of entry or transfer applications in September 2012 will be heard according to the following timetable:

Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, whichever is the later date.

In year or immediate entry appeals

Appeals resulting from in year admission applications will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

Appellants will be sent notification of their appeal hearing together with a copy of the school’s case 10 clear school days in advance of the hearing.

If an appellant wishes to submit further evidence which was not included with their initial appeal, they must make sure that it is received at least 5 clear school days prior to the hearing date.