Admissions and Appeals

If you would like to apply for a place for your child starting in the next Reception intake (we do not have Nursery provision), applications should be made by 15 January 2025 in order to start in September. The online Admissions window opens on 11 November 2024. The national 'offer day' is 16 April 2025.

Please see our Admissions Policy in the policies area of this website for details on how to apply, selection arrangements and oversubscription criteria. Information on how to make in-year admissions requests are also included. Alternatively, you may use the link below to access information or make an online application via Derbyshire County Council’s website:

Derbyshire Schools Admissions

Appeals

Full details on the Appeals process can be found on the DCC Admissions Appeals page. This  includes information for Appeals for starting in Reception in September 2025, including timescales, which are:

For decisions notified on the National Offer Day of 16 April 2025 for primary and junior schools, appeals must be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals.

For decisions relating to late applications notified after the National Offer Day, appeals should be heard with 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

All other appeals must be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

Parents will be given 10 school days’ notice of the date and arrangement of the appeals hearing.

The deadline by which the appellant must submit any further evidence is 6 days prior to the appeals hearing.

Admission authorities must submit their evidence 5 school days prior to the appeal hearing.

The clerk will send out the appeal papers at least 5 school days prior to the appeal hearing.

The clerk will notify the appellant of the decision within 5 school days of the appeal hearing.