All preferences will be considered against the over-subscription criteria for the school and not by preference. Schools must not know what preference and must only use their oversubscription criteria. If there are more applications than there are places, the admission criteria will be applied to decide which pupils are eligible to be offered a place at each school. You will then be allocated a place at the school that can offer your child and that was the highest ranked in your list.

If you applied online, you will receive an email with the school offered during the evening of Monday 1 March 2027, and you will have the opportunity to accept online. If you are offered your first preference school, your offer will be automatically accepted. All other applicants will have until 17 March 2027 to accept or decline their offer.

If you choose to decline the offered place, it will be removed from your child’s record and made available to another child. You must provide details of the school your child will be attending in September 2027. An offer of a place may be withdrawn if you do not accept or decline by the given deadline and offered to another child on the waiting list. If you change your mind, your child will be added back onto the waiting list for the school, but there is no guarantee your child will be re-offered a place as the school may be full. Information about offers will not be given over the telephone.

It may be that none of your preferred schools is able to offer your child a place. If you are a Bexley resident, a place will be offered at the nearest, or one within a reasonable travelling distance, Bexley school to your home that has a vacancy. You can also ask whether other schools still have vacancies. If you live outside Bexley, your home Local Authority is responsible for offering you a school place.

Please note that refusing an offer of a school place does not guarantee that any appeal will be upheld.