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Primary school admission during the school year

  • 19-03-2025 11:48AM
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    hometruths
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    I have a query about school admissions I'm looking for any teachers experience of or views on. Apologies for wordy post!

    Next month we are moving back to an area we previously left, and hoping to get our two kids back into the same primary school starting again at beginning of summer term.

    Still in touch with other parents in school etc, so knowing their year group was not full and oversubbed - probably room for at least 3 pupils in each of the relevant classes - we didn't make the application for the places until we were sure if/when we would be back in the area. Having read all the relevant admissions policy/notice/guidelines our understanding was that in the middle of the school year as long as the classes were not full the school would confirm the available place on receipt of the application.

    Just been told that in both kid's cases there are "about 5 or 6" ahead of them on the list, and school is waiting to hear whether those parents are going to accept the offers of places or not, they'd no idea of timescale, and we may not hear one way or another until immediately before term starts at end of April. They also recommended applying to other schools in the area.

    I was a bit taken aback, and last thing I want to do is get all bolshy with the admissions officer, hence asking on here how common or likely a scenario is this?

    Everything we've read and everybody we've spoken to (apart from the admissions officer!) led us to believe in this scenario if you move to an area and apply for a school place, if it is not oversubscribed there is no waiting list, it is either definitively full or it is not, so the application and offer or refusal is fairly instantaneous.

    Unlike the start of a school year you wouldn't apply to a number schools in the area, it seems unlikely that there are a number of parents applying to multiple schools in the middle of the school year in case they need the place, and then take time to consider whether or not they want it?

    Does anybody have any idea if this is common occurrence?



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