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 2025 - Year 7 admission appeals
The deadline for making your Year 7 appeal for admission in September 2025 is 12midnight, Monday, 28 April 2025.
- If you submit your appeal before the deadline: your appeal will be heard by Monday, 30 June 2025.
- 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 possible within 30 school days of your appeal being submitted (this could be after July 2025).
Appeal hearings for admission to Year 7 in September 2025 will likely be heard from the end of May 2025.
The same independent panel must hear all appeals received for the same school. If the number of appeals received means it will take multiple days to consider then the panel will not make any decisions until all hearings for that school have been completed.
We receive a large volume of appeals and organise hearings for all schools in the borough, it can therefore take several weeks until hearings for all schools are completed.
Appeals received after 25 June 2025
Where possible, appeals received before Wednesday, 25 June 2025 will be heard before the end of the term.
Appeals received after this date, or, where it has not been possible to arrange a hearing, will be heard from September 2025 once the school term resumes.