Admissions

If you would like your child to attend our academy, you can download our admissions booklet below. This can either be completed electronically or handwritten. Please see full details of our admission arrangements below.

Admissions Policy

Please contact our school office if you would like to arrange a visit for the next academic year admissions. We have dates available or if your can’t make these, we can do individual tours by appointment.

For in-year admissions, please contact Clare Sommerville via the Main Office.

We prioritise applications from children using the following criteria (from September 2020):

Children in Local Authority Care or Previously in Local Authority Care
Current Family Association
Health, social and special access reasons
Children of staff
Nearness of children's homes to the school

For full details, please see the Admissions document listed above.

APPEALS

If your child is due to start primary, infant or junior school in 2020 you can appeal between 16th April (Offer Day) and the 14th May 2020. For applications made in the normal admission round, appeals must be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals. For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 schools days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 schools days of the appeals being lodged.

The Local Authority, Kent County Council, is responsible for the admission arrangements at West Hill Primary Academy.

For admission arrangements, please use the link below.