In-Year Admissions up until July 2010

 

The School Admission Team will be able to provide further information if you are unsure of any of the following procedures.


If you have recently moved to the Royal Borough, and your child is primary school age,  you can contact schools directly to find if there is a vacancy in your child's year group. The School Admissions Team hold details on which schools are likely to have vacancies so we can point you in the right direction. We do not advise that you just join a waiting list and wait for a place to become available. You should always accept an offer at an alternative school in the event that your child does not get offered a place at your preferred school.


If you have a child of secondary school age, it is highly unlikely that we will be able to offer your child a place in a Royal Borough secondary school as they are always full to their published admissions number, and above in certain cases. We will offer you assistance in finding a school place for your child, but it will often be a school in a neighbouring borough. You can of course request to be added to a waiting list for a school that is full, but there is no guarantee  that a place will become available so you must make alternative arrangements.


 For further information, please contact Tel: 0207 361 2210 or email: school.admissions@rbkc.gov.uk

 

Arrangements from September 2010

In accordance with the requirements of the new DCSF Admissions Code which will be in force in the academic year 2010-11, all applications for admission to secondary schools which are made outside the normal admissions round will in future be co-ordinated by the Royal Borough’s Admissions Team.  That will mean that all applications must be made directly to the Admissions Team and not to individual schools.  The details of how these new arrangements will work in the Royal Borough will be agreed in advance of the academic year 2010 -11 with the schools which are their own admission authority and whose right to apply their published admission arrangements and to rank applicants accordingly is not changed by the new Code. A scheme and protocol will be in place by 1 January 2010 and will be published on the website after this date.