1. Secondary Admissions 2017 Parent information evening

2. Key Dates for Parents
Results for Kent Test sent to parents on Thursday 13th October 2016
National SCAF closing date Monday 31st October 2016
National Offer Day Tuesday 1st March 2017
Waiting List requests and Late applications 18 March
Places to be accepted or refused by 20 March
By this date parents must lodge an appeal with the Local Authority 13th April 2017
Vacant places reallocated by KCC 28th April 2017

3. Secondary Common Application Form (SCAF)
Please apply online via the Online Admissions Website:
We have only a very limited number of blank paper SCAFs
Kent parents are invited to express up to four preferences in priority order.
Putting down one school only will not improve the chance of getting a place.
Applications must be submitted by midnight on 31st October 2016 which is a ‘National’ closing date.

4. Online Admissions
Parents will need to register with the website before submitting application.
Parents do not need to have an address to apply online.
You should print off a summary of your application and give a copy to the School Office.
If you have provide an address you will receive an confirmation of your application which is a complete copy of your submission.

5. Online Admissions www.kent.gov.uk/ola
On 1st March 2017 parents who have applied online, and provided a valid address, will receive notification of their offer by .
Offer s will be sent after 4pm on 1st March 2017.
Only parents who apply online can receive their offer notification by , parents who apply on paper will need to wait for their formal letter.
Parents who apply online must not submit a paper SCAF as well. The LA will only accept one application, and checking duplicates will slow processing down.

6. Testing
Children whose parents have not registered but have named a grammar school on their SCAF will not be able to sit the test until after 28th April 2017
Where a grammar school is named on the SCAF and the child has not taken the Kent test the preference will be treated as invalid because the child does not meet the entry criteria for a grammar school.
A grammar school assessment does not guarantee a grammar school place. The allocation of places rests on each school’s published oversubscription criteria.
There is no right to appeal against the assessment decision but after 1st March 2017 parents may make an admission appeal to an independent appeal panel.

7. Offering School Places
1st March 2017
After 4pm those parents who applied online and provided a valid address will be sent an advising which school their child has been offered.
Parents can also log on to the eAdmissions site to view their offer, after 5pm.
In addition, offer letters will be posted first class to all paper SCAF applicants and applicants which did not receive their first preference. They should arrive on 2nd March Kent LA’s s/ letters will include an acceptance letter, a waiting list form and information about how to appeal.

8. Offering School Places
From 6th March 2017 Schools send welcome letters to parents. By 16th March 2017 Deadlines for parents to accept and refuse places with the school- this must be made in writing or via . Final date for parents to request to go on a waiting list (to the LA). 29th March 2017 Final date for parents to make any appeal. 28th April 2017 The LA will offer any vacant places to pupils on the reallocation lists, prioritised in accordance with the published oversubscription criteria.

9. Waiting Lists
The LA will offer places in those schools with vacancies against the Published Admission Number on 28th April 2017.
After 28th April 2017 schools will hold waiting lists prioritised in accordance with their oversubscription criteria.
A grammar school can only put children on its waiting list who have been assessed suitable for grammar school through the Kent Test (and / or Dover Test for Dover grammar schools only).

10. Appeals
Parents have the right to appeal for any school which refuses them a place.
Appeals must be lodged by 29th March 2017.
After 28th April, the schools will allocate vacant places to children on the waiting lists, in accordance of their oversubscription criteria.

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12. Good Luck!
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