Deadline for making an appeal
In-year transfer admission appeals
You should submit your appeal as soon as possible, ideally within 20 school days, after you’re notified that your admission application for your preferred school was unsuccessful.
Where possible, in-year transfer appeals will be heard within 30 school days of submission.
September 2026 reception admission appeals
The deadline for lodging your Reception appeal for admission in September 2026 is 12midnight on Tuesday, 19 May 2026.
- If you submit your appeal before the deadline, your appeal will be heard by Tuesday, 21 July 2026.
- If you submit your appeal after the deadline, your appeal will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals, or as soon as is practicable within 30 school days of being submitted (this could be after July 2026).
Appeal hearings for admission to Reception in September 2026 are likely to be heard from the end of June 2026.
The same Independent Panel must hear all appeals received for the same school. If the number of appeals received mean it will take multiple days to consider then the Panel will not make any decisions until all hearings for that school have completed.
We receive a large volume of appeal applications and we organise appeal hearings for all local schools, it can therefore take several weeks until hearings for all schools are completed.
Appeals received after 24 June 2026
Where possible, appeals received before Wednesday, 24 June 2026 will be heard before the end of term.
Appeals received after this date, or, where it has not been possible to arrange a hearing, will be heard in September 2026 once the school term resumes.