Admissions

The arrangements for the admission of children to this school at age 4+ are made by the Council. Please read the information below which is provided by Brighton and Hove City Council. Click here to access their website.

Read the following information carefully as it will help you to decide whether your child has a good chance of being offered a place at your preferred school.

Where there are more applications received for a community school than there are places available, the school admissions team will use the 5 admission priorities listed below to decide who will be given a place.

The school admissions team do not use catchment areas for infant, junior or primary schools.

Children with education, health and care plans (EHCPs) will be entitled to a place at the school named in the EHCP. If the child for whom you are responsible has an EHCP, indicate on your application that this is the case.

The school admissions team does not take into account your child’s nursery place or current school place (except for junior school applications), your childminding arrangements or workplace address.

The school admissions team does not consider a child’s academic achievements or abilities.

The school admissions team may contact you at any stage in the process to request proof of your address.

All allocations to community schools are based on the following priorities.

• Priority 1. Looked after children and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to Brighton & Hove City Council) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted
• Priority 2. Compelling medical or other exceptional reasons to attend the school
• Priority 3. Sibling link - this will apply if there is another child living in the same household as your child who in September 2026 will be attending your preferred school.
• Priority 4. Children transferring between a linked infant and junior school
• Priority 5. Other children

Tie-break

If there are more children applying than places available in any given priority, the available places will be offered to those children living closest to the school up to the published admission number.

Home-to-school distance will be measured by the shortest route from the child’s home to the nearest of the school’s gates.

This will be measured by specialist computer software based on Ordnance Survey data. It measures using the road network supplied by the Ordnance Survey and some other public rights of way which are paved and lit.

Reception 2026 Starters 

Year 6 moving up to Year 7

For more information regarding these dates click here 

You will receive an email, or a letter from the school admissions team informing you which school your child has been allocated.

If you want to accept the place you have been offered, you should complete and return the pupil registration form (a link is provided in the decision email) to the school which your child has been offered a place.

The school will give you clear information about arrangements for starting school.

If your child does not take up their school place on the agreed day and you have not informed the school of any special reason for the delay, the school admissions team may give the place to another child.

For more information on this process, click here 

You can appeal online if your child wasn't offered a place at a school you listed as your first, second or third preference in the application form.

Appeal deadlines - Reception 2026 starters

Appeal deadlines - Year 6 moving up to Year 7

The appeal will take place within 30 school days. Appeals don't take place during school holidays.

For more information on appeal process works, click here 

If you decide to defer admission, you must inform your allocated school when you accept the place.

Where a place is deferred it will not be given to another pupil, but your child must enter the school by the beginning of the school term following their fifth birthday and within the school year that the offer was made.

If your child’s fifth birthday falls between 1 September 2026 and 31 December 2026, they would normally start school in September 2026. However, you may defer until January 2027.

If your child’s fifth birthday falls between 1 January 2027 and 31 August 2027, you can defer admission until the beginning of January 2027, or until the start of the summer term.

If your child’s fifth birthday falls between 1 April 2027 and 31 August 2027 and you choose not to send your child to school until the September following their fifth birthday, you will need to apply in the 2027 to 2028 admissions round. 

This will normally be considered for year 1 rather than a reception class, however, a request for admission to reception can be made.

For more information on how to defer admission, click here 

Brighton & Hove City Council's school admissions team holds waiting lists for Primary School.

The governors of academies and church-voluntary-aided schools operate their own waiting lists.

You should contact individual academies or church-voluntary-aided schools to find out about their procedures.

How the schools admissions team manage waiting lists

Children will be placed on a waiting list for community schools according to the admission priorities listed in section 4. Within each category, children will be ranked according to home-to-school distance.

A waiting list place can be affected by other children’s names being entered later. For example, if a child’s name were added to the list, that child could be placed above existing entries if he or she had an exceptional reason for admission, a sibling link or an address closer to the school than other applicants.

Children can move down the list as well as up.

Late applicants will also be added to waiting lists as soon as possible after they apply. Late changes of preference (repeat applications) will be added to the waiting list for the new preference as soon as possible from mid-June onwards.

For more information on how the schools admissions team manage waiting lists, click here