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Making a school admission appeal
Your right to appeal
If we haven't offered your child a place at a school listed on your application form, you have the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. You will only be able to appeal for a school place if you have formally applied and been refused a place.
You are advised to accept a place at any school you have been offered as this will not affect your appeal and will guarantee your child has a school place if your appeal is unsuccessful.
All appeal hearings are independent and held remotely. You will be given full instructions of how to access the meeting online. If you are unable to join the meeting remotely, you have the right to request a face to face meeting.
We arrange and hear appeals for:
- Barnet community primary schools
- Friern Barnet Secondary School
We don't arrange and hear appeals for:
- academies
- free schools
- voluntary aided school
- foundation schools
Community |
Voluntary Aided | Foundation | Academies & Free Schools |
---|---|---|---|
Barnfield Primary | Akiva | Hollickwood | Alma Primary |
Brookland Infant and Nursery | All Saints' CofE N20 | Ashmole Primary | |
Brookland Junior | All Saints' CofE NW2 | Broadfields | |
Brunswick Park Primary & Nursery | Beis Yaakov Primary | Childs Hill Primary | |
Chalgrove Primary | Beit Shvidler Primary | Claremont Primary | |
Church Hill | Blessed Dominic Catholic | Deansbrook Junior | |
Colindale Primary | Christ Church Primary | Dollis Primary | |
Coppetts Wood Primary | Hasmonean Primary | Etz Chaim Jewish Primary | |
Courtland | Holy Trinity CofE Primary | Independent Jewish Day School | |
Cromer Road | Mathilda Marks-Kennedy | London Academy | |
Danegrove Primary | Menorah Foundation | Millbrook Park Primary | |
Deansbrook Infant | Menorah Primary, Boys | Parkfield Primary | |
Edgware Primary | Menorah Primary, Girls | Rimon Jewish Primary | |
Fairway Primary | Monken Hadley CofE Primary | Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary | |
Foulds | Our Lady of Lourdes RC | Summerside Primary | |
Frith Manor Primary | Pardes House Primary | The Hyde | |
Garden Suburb Infant | Rosh Pinah Primary | Watling Park | |
Garden Suburb Junior | Sacred Heart RC Primary | Wren Academy, Finchley | |
Goldbeaters Primary | Shalom Noam Primary | ||
Holly Park | St Agnes' Catholic Primary | ||
Livingstone Primary | St Andrew's CofE Primary | ||
Manorside Primary | St Catherine's RC | ||
Martin Primary | St John's CofE N11 | ||
Monkfrith Primary | St John's CofE N20 | ||
Moss Hall Infant | St Joseph's Catholic Primary | ||
Moss Hall Junior | St Mary's and St John's CofE | ||
Northside | St Mary's CofE Primary N3 | ||
Queenswell Infant & Nursery | St Mary's CofE Primary EN4 | ||
Queenswell Junior | St Paul's CofE Primary N11 | ||
Sunnyfields Primary | St Paul's CofE Primary NW7 | ||
The Orion Primary | St Theresa's Catholic Primary | ||
Tudor Primary | St Vincent's Catholic Primary | ||
Underhill | The Annunciation Catholic Infant | ||
Wessex Gardens Primary | The Annunciation Catholic Junior | ||
Whitings Hill Primary | Trent CofE Primary |
If you wish to appeal for refused admission to a voluntary aided, foundation, free school or academy, you will find further information on how to appeal on the individual school website.
How many appeals you can make
You can only make one appeal per school in a single academic year unless there is a change in circumstances.
How appeals are considered by the panel
Although each appeal is decided on individual merit, only exceptional circumstances are likely to lead to a successful appeal. An appeal is unlikely to be allowed on the grounds of a school’s academic performance or Ofsted report, home-to-school distance or personal preference.
The outcome of an appeal will not be influenced by the acceptance of a place an alternative school.
How the appeals process works
- how to prepare for your appeal
- what happens at the appeal hearing
- how the appeal panel will make its decision
Who you can make your appeal to
Schools in Barnet
We will arrange and hear appeals for:
- Barnet community primary schools
- Friern Barnet School
We don't arrange and hear appeals for:
- academies
- faith schools
- foundation schools and free schools
- information on how to appeal to these schools is available on the individual school websites
Schools outside Barnet
Contact the local council where the school is located to make an appeal.
Make an appeal
Appeal submission deadlines
- Entry to Reception in September 2025 - deadline 22 May 2025
- in year appeals will be heard throughout the year
If you submit an appeal after the deadline, it will still be scheduled but it may be heard at a later date than appeals that were submitted on time.
Appeals for an infant class place
Infant classes (Reception, Year 1 and Year 2) must not contain more than 30 children with a single teacher.
This is why infant class appeals are rarely successful.
Your personal reasons for wanting a place at the school, however strongly you feel, can't be taken into account unless your child has been refused admission to an infant class and:
- admissions arrangements didn't comply with admissions law
- admissions arrangements weren't correctly applied
- decision to refuse admission was unreasonable
Many parents think the decision not to offer their child a place was unreasonable and will present a case to support this argument.
The legal definition of an unreasonable decision is decision which was:
- beyond the range of responses open to a reasonable decision maker
- outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards, that no sensible person who applied their mind to the question could have arrived at it
Appeal hearing dates for Barnet's community schools
These appeal hearing dates are subject to change.
Day of appeal | Date of appeal |
---|---|
Tuesday | 1 October 2024 |
Thursday | 31 October 2024 |
Thursday | 28 November 2024 |
Monday | 16 December 2024 |
Wednesday | 29 January 2025 |
Tuesday | 25 February 2025 |
Wednesday | 26 March 2025 |
Tuesday | 13 May 2025 |
Tuesday | 17 June 2025 |
Thursday | 10 July 2025 |
Monday | 14 July 2025 |
Tuesday | 22 July 2025 |