If you didn’t get the school you wanted this time round, don’t worry, here’s some of our top tips.
Click here to see the breakdown of Reception places offered this year, this will give you a good indication of what the waiting lists will look like.
You can also click here for a breakdown of junior places offered from year 3 – 6
Don’t decline a place yet, whatever you do! This leaves you without a choice and you could eventually be left with a school even further away or even less suitable. If you accept a place you will still remain on the waiting list for the schools you wanted above the allocated school. For example, if you’re offered your third choice, you’ll remain on waiting list for your second & first choice – make sure this is the case when you contact admissions.
Here’s the Warwickshire Admissions Page Call: 01926 414143
Here’s the Warwickshire CC Admissions Policy
Please note: there is a discrepancy between the admissions website criteria and the criteria on the offer breakdown .. the following info is from the offer breakdown but you can see the link here says slightly different. There is however this criteria specified from 2020-2021.
Warwickshire’s 2019 entry over-subscription criteria for PRIMARY schools
The following criteria have been used where schools have received more applications than there are places available, after children with an EHC Plan have been admitted first.
1. Children in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, a local authority, and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order);
2. Children living in the priority area who will have a sibling at the school at the time of admission*;
3. Other children living in the priority area;
4. Children living outside the priority area who will have a sibling at the school at the time of admission;
5. Other children living outside the priority area
Please note:
- a) Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan that names a school will be admitted first. In this event the number of places that remain for allocation will be reduced.
- b) Children attending, or with a place at, a nursery class do not have a higher priority for – and are not guaranteed – a place at the attached primary school.
- c) * Time of admission relates to the time the applicant would start at the school – not the time of application or offer.
Warwickshire’s 2019 entry over-subscription criteria for INFANT schools
The following criteria have been used where schools have received more applications than there are places available, after children with an EHC Plan have been admitted first.
1. Children in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, a local authority and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order);
2. Children living in the priority area who will have a sibling at the school at the time of admission*;
3. Children living in the priority area who will have a sibling at the partner junior school at the time of admission;
4. Other children living in the priority area;
5. Children living outside the priority area who will have a sibling at the school at the time of admission;
6. Children living outside the priority area who will have a sibling at the partner junior school at the time of admission;
7. Other children living outside the priority area
Please note:
- a) Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health andCare (EHC) Plan that names a school will be admitted first. In this event the number of places that remain for allocation will be reduced.
- b) Children attending, or with a place at, a nursery class do not have a higher priority for – and are not guaranteed – a place at the attached infant school.
- c) * Time of admission relates to the time the applicant would start at the school – not the time of application or offer.
Here’s the breakdown of school places this year, by school, in Warwickshire, you can see if you’re likely to get in and where there’s space.
This can be useful to see how likely you are to get a place, though obviously these change year-on-year due to birth rates and other variables.
Important Dates for appeals:
Appeals for Reception (and year 3 entry if transferring to a Junior School) from September 2019
- Primary Offer Day – Tuesday 16 April 2018
- Deadline for lodging appeals – Monday 3 June 2019
- Appeals received by Monday 3 June 2019 must be heard by Monday 6 September 2019
- Appeals received after 3 June 2019 will be heard by Monday 6 September 2019 where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.
schoolappeals@warwickshire.gov.uk
Primary school on time applicants: hearings will commence on 18 June 2019 and finish on 16 July 2019. No appeals will be heard between 31 July 2019 and 16 September 2019.
