The procedure for applying for junior places at junior and primary schools.
Primary admissions timescale September 2023 - 2024
- Week commencing 31 October 2022 – information on application process distributed to schools.
- Monday 07 November 2022 – online and telephone application facilities open.
- From week commencing 14 November 2022 - preferences start to be recorded on the Admissions System and initial information available to schools on SAM.
- Midnight Sunday 15 January 2023 – closing date for submission of applications.
- By Monday 23 January 2023 - admissions and transport Team send other local authorities details of Derbyshire children who have expressed preferences for their schools.
- By Monday 23 January 2023 – admissions and transport team to have received from other local authorities details of their children who have expressed preferences for Derbyshire schools.
- By Monday 6 February 2023 – admissions and transport team will have released all preference details to own admission authority schools where assessments are done by the school.
- By Friday 10 February 2023 - admissions and transport team will have released preference details for checking by own admission authority schools where assessments are done by the admissions and transport team.
- By Monday 27 February 2023 – own admission authority school rankings to be complete on SAM, checked and confirmed to the admissions and transport team. Schools should ensure that a Governors’ meeting to consider preferences is scheduled in order to meet this deadline.
- By Monday 6 March 2023 – admissions and transport team to send to other local authorities, potential offers of places in Derbyshire schools.
- By Monday 6 March 2023 – admissions and transport team to receive from other local authorities potential offers of places in their schools.
- By Friday 24 March 2023 – allocation process complete. Admissions and transport team to release details of children to be offered places (subject to the receipt of information from neighbouring local authorities). This information is confidential until National Offer day.
- Monday 17 April 2023 – National Offer day. Decision available online and letters posted second class where appropriate.
- Monday 17 April 2023 – waiting lists for all oversubscribed schools established and administered by the admissions team.
- Wednesday 17 May 2023 – closing date for appeals (20 school days from offer day).
- May 2023 onwards – Own admission authority schools to inform admissions and transport team of the outcome of appeals to the independent appeal panels. Where appeals have been successful, the admissions team will deal with any resulting movement.
- Friday 14 July 2023 - main round of appeals to be heard by this date.
- From Monday 4 September 2023 – schools to notify admissions and transport team of any pupil allocated a place who does not take up the place offered or who leaves whilst the waiting list is maintained.
- Sunday 31 December 2023 – waiting lists cease to be maintained by admissions and transport team.
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