Secondary school admissions

Accept your offer

Unless you have been offered and have accepted a place at another school, you must accept the place we have offered.  Accepting the place will not affect the offer of a place at a higher preference school if a vacancy comes up later, or affect the outcome of an appeal. The school you have been offered will not be told about other schools you applied for. Please complete and return the reply slip to this office by 16 March 2012, even if the school is in another borough.

If you want to find out why your child was not offered a place at a higher preference

• If the school is in the borough of Wandsworth, see the following 'Why have I not been offered a place at' section. If you need more information regarding faith school or specialist places, please contact the relevant school to ask why your application did not get enough priority under their admission criteria.
• If the school is not in the borough of Wandsworth, you should contact the school or the borough in which it is situated.

If you want information about waiting list positions

• If the school is in the borough of Wandsworth, you should contact Pupil Services (Telephone: 020 8871 7316).
• If the school is not in the borough of Wandsworth, you should contact the school or the borough in which it is situated.

If you want to appeal against a decision not to offer your child a place

• For Ashcroft Technology Academy, Burntwood School, Chestnut Grove School, Ernest Bevin College and Graveney School (and for information regarding Bolingbroke Academy appeals procedures) you should contact the Wandsworth Education Appeals Service on 020 8871 7554 or educationappeals@wandsworth.gov.uk for an appeal form. Completed forms and any supporting documents must be received by the Appeals Service by 5 pm on Thursday 29 March 2012.
• For Saint Cecilia's, Wandsworth CE School, you should contact the school straight away on 020 8780 1244 for details of how to appeal.
• For any school not in the borough of Wandsworth, you should contact the school (for Foundation and Voluntary Aided schools, and Academies) or the borough in which the school is situated (for Community schools) as soon as possible for information on how and when to appeal.

If you want to make late applications for different schools

Contact Pupil Services for an application form. You will still be offered a place at a higher preference if a vacancy becomes available. Making late applications will not affect the outcome of any appeals you may make.

Why have I not been offered a place at?

Graveney School, Burntwood School or Ernest Bevin College

This will be for two reasons:

• Because children with a higher score than your child in the Wandsworth Year 6 Test filled all the available selective places; and
• Because eligible siblings and children living nearer to the school than your child filled all the available non-selective places.

St Cecilia's, Wandsworth Church of England School

This will be because children who met the church attendance criteria more fully than your child did, and/or who live nearer to the school than your child, filled all the available places.  Please contact the school if you need more information about the church attendance criteria.

Ashcroft Technology Academy or Chestnut Grove School

• If your child applied for a specialist place, this will be because s/he did not get a good enough score in the school's aptitude assessment to qualify for a place. Please contact the school if you need further information about specialist places.
• For all applicants this will be because siblings and children living nearer to the school than your child filled all the places available in your child's ability band.  Your child's ability band was based on his/her score in the Wandsworth Year 6 Test. Please note that children without a test score will not be placed into any ability band for Ashcroft Technology Academy and will only be offered a place if the waiting list of tested children is exhausted (please see page 16 of Choose a Wandsworth Secondary School).

Bolingbroke Academy

• Applications from the named feeder primary schools exceeded the number of places available at the academy.
• Applications from within your named feeder primary school exceeded the proportion of places available to that school and successful applicants live closer to the academy (measured in a straight line).