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Post offer day guidance
This is what we will do
Provided that your application was received by the
closing date: If you applied online you will receive an
email during the evening of 2 March with the outcome
of your application. If you made a paper application,
on 2 March we will send you a letter by first class post
confirming the outcome of your application.
If we are unable to offer you a place at any of your
preferred schools, we will offer you a place at the school
closest to your home address that has a vacancy as far as
practically possible. We strongly advise that you accept
the school offered, until you have secured a place at an
alternative school.
The Community Schools in Ealing will hold waiting lists for
one term after which the waiting list will cease. If parents
wish for their child to continue on the waiting list after
31 December they will need to write and request this.
For own admission authority schools please check the
individual schools admissions arrangements.
Late offer rounds
Ealing Council co-ordinates the offers for Schools in Ealing
until the end of the summer term. After the initial offer date
of 2 March the following timetable will be followed:
Round Closing date Offer date
2 27 March 2 April
3 17 April 23 April
4 1 May 7 May
5 15 May 21 May
This is what you need to do
You must confirm whether you are accepting or
declining the place that has been offered by 16 March.
If you have applied online you can simply log into your
eadmissions account and accept or decline online. If
you have applied on paper you will need to complete
and return the reply slip enclosed with your offer letter.
If you do not respond to your offer the place may be
withdrawn and offered to another child.
Waiting lists
Your child will automatically be placed on the waiting list
for any higher preference schools for which you did not
receive an offer. After 21 May offers will be made as and when vacancies
become available.
If you change address whilst waiting for a school place you
must be living at the address before the new address can
be taken into consideration in your application and proof
will be required, see page 53 for details. Please note that during the late offer rounds any
applications/information received after the closing
date will not be considered until the following round
of offers.
Please be aware that any changes to your
preferences after the offer date are unlikely to
be successful as the majority of schools will have
allocated all of their places. It is therefore extremely
important that you list the schools you want in the
correct order on your application form.
When vacancies arise, places will be allocated according to
the over-subscription criteria. Vacancies will be offered to
the pupil with the highest priority on the waiting list not
on a “first come, first served” basis. The position of a pupil
on the waiting list changes frequently and can move down
as well as up if other pupils that have a higher priority have
their names added to the waiting list. Length of time on
a waiting list does not give any priority. Places are offered
from the waiting list if they become available.
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