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Admissions are managed by Hertfordshire County Council

If you have recently moved to the area or your child will be moving schools outside of the usual Year 7 intake you will need to apply for an in-year admission.

In year admissions – change school during the year

To apply for Sixth Form please head to our Sixth Form page.

School Allocations for September 2024

Friday 1st March is the date when year 6 students find out about their school allocation for year 7.

Hertfordshire County Council manage all admissions to The Thomas Alleyne Academy so more details of the process are on their website:

Secondary and upper school places

15th March 2024 is the deadline to accept or decline your offer.

If you don’t accept or decline, they may offer your place to someone else. We advise you to accept the place offered so your child definitely has a school in September. This doesn’t affect your chances of getting a school you prefer later, either through the continuing interest process, or through a school place appeal.

Secondary school appeals – moving up to secondary 2024

Admissions 2024/25

• Determined Admission Arrangements 2024/25 (227.19KB)

The changes for 2024/25 are listed below:

In-year applications – clarification on how applications for summer born children, who have been educated out of their chronological year group and wish to delay their entry to the school, will be handled. This will be relevant for the first cohort of summer born children who delayed their entry to Reception by one academic year, who will be looking at prospective secondary school admission arrangements for 2023/24 to check what, if anything, they need to do to ensure their child is admitted to Year 7 instead of their chronological age group, Year 8.

To amend the definition and explanation for home address, where two applications are received for the same child

School Admission Appeals

IMPORTANT INFORMATION/REMINDERS

As you will be aware, parents should have the ability to lodge all school admission appeals online.  The below tells you how to ensure this statutory right is made available to parents.

Please note: our online portal has now changed.  All parents now need to set up an appeals account in order to appeal.  The online appeals portal is the same for all parents and is found here: School Admission Appeal | Hertfordshire County Council (link doesn’t work from here or the HCC website)

In order to set up an account, the following codes are needed:

• Application Reference Number
• Child ID

Transfer appeals

Hertfordshire parents can access the codes they need in order to set up an appeals account via their admissions account.  They can see them on the page where they are told their allocation.

Parents who live out-of-county or who applied on paper will need to contact our Customer Service Centre on 0300 123 4043 in order to obtain their registration details to gain access. These they will be sent via automated email.

Please be aware that parent guidance for appeals is found solely on our web pages now.  There is no longer a published document. Is this relevant? Opied from HCC?

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Appeals Team on 01992 588548.