Before submitting a school admission appeal, please read the following pages, as theses contain important information with regards to your potential appeal.
School Admission Appeals are heard throughout the year and we encourage you to submit your appeal as soon as possible after receiving your refusal letter.
We also strongly encourage you to upload your supporting evidence when you first submit your appeal as stated below. In addition, please ensure you read the Admissions Guide, to note what can and cannot be accepted by the Appeals Panel.
To make an appeal you will need to login or register for My Account.
Please ensure that you have to hand & upload:
Please note: We are unable to accept statements/letters of support from schools for individual appeals as per Section 2.14 of the School Admission Appeals Code 2022. You should also not share waiting list positions of your child with the Panel, as this cannot be taken into account or acknowledged during your appeal.
School appeals for application to schools during the academic year are heard monthly and within 30 school days of the appeal being submitted (excluding bank holidays, weekends and school holidays).
Any school appeal received in late-July and August 2024 would need to be heard when schools re-open from Tuesday 3 September 2024 onwards.
Below is the schedule for in-year appeals during the next academic year 2024/25, subject to any changes. These will be held at the Town Hall, St Ives Road, Maidenhead, SL6 1RF.
Appeal dates:
Our main round of appeals is heard primarily during the late Spring and Summer months. These are split into Secondary and Primary school appeals.
The deadlines for lodging appeals for this main round of summer appeals for entry into schools in September 2025, are as follows:
Appeals received after the above deadlines will be heard within 30 school days of receipt, however this may not be before September 2025 in accordance with the School Admission Appeals Code 2022.
The main round of Secondary School appeals will be heard in the following weeks:
The main round of Primary School appeals will be heard in the following weeks:
If you are appealing for a place in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2, please note that Government regulations limit class sizes to 30 pupils per class teacher in these year groups. Therefore, there are very limited grounds on which appeals to these year groups can be allowed. Examples of how the panel could allow an infant-class size appeal are if:
Please do carefully consider which of the above apply to your case before submitting an infant-class size appeal.