School admissions

School admissions code and appeals code. Applications, deadlines, appeals and complaints. Guidance on summer-born children.

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Services

• Secretary of State direction to admit a child to an academy

  Forms to be used by local authorities for requesting that the Secretary of State for Education directs an academy to admit a child.

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Guidance and regulation

• School admissions code
  • Statutory guidance
  • 11 March 2022
  • Department for Education
• School applications for foreign national children and children resident outside England
  • Detailed guide
  • 28 March 2024
  • Department for Education
• School admission appeals code
  • Statutory guidance
  • 20 January 2023
  • Department for Education
• Summer born children: advice for parents
  • Guidance
  • 27 April 2023
  • Department for Education
• Academy admissions
  • Detailed guide
  • 21 March 2023
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Brockhurst Primary School: 19 November 2024
  • 19 November 2024
  • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
  • Decision
• Twyford Church of England High School: 18 November 2024
  • 18 November 2024
  • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
  • Decision
• Otford Primary School: 18 November 2024
  • 18 November 2024
  • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
  • Decision
• St Andrew's CofE Primary School: 13 November 2024
  • 13 November 2024
  • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
  • Decision
• Biggleswade Academy: 13 November 2024
  • 13 November 2024
  • Office of the Schools Adjudicator
  • Decision

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Research and statistics

• Admission appeals in England: academic year 2023 to 2024
  • 15 August 2024
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2024
  • 13 June 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Delayed school admissions for summer born pupils (2023)
  • 30 November 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Admission appeals in England: academic year 2022 to 2023
  • 17 August 2023
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2023
  • 15 June 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Changes to the school admission appeals code
  • 16 June 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 03 April 2022
• Changes to the School Admissions Code
  • 13 May 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 17 October 2020
• Funding for school admission appeals
  • 17 December 2015
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 03 December 2015
• Changes to the school admissions code
  • 30 October 2014
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 29 September 2014

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Academies admissions appeals review 2021
  • 29 March 2022
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Corporate report
• School places sufficiency survey data
  • 25 March 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Secondary school preferences by school type: 2019
  • 14 February 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Atypical age admissions letters: funding for local authorities
  • 18 August 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Academies admissions appeals review: 2014
  • 25 February 2015
  • Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Office of the Schools Adjudicator
• Department for Education
• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• Home Office