Admissions Appeals

If your child is due to start Primary School in September 2025, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Wednesday, 16 April 2025). You needed to submit your appeal before Tuesday, 20th May 2025 for it to be considered by Friday, 18th July 2025. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible, in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

In Year Admissions

If your child is already of school age and you are looking for a place at our school, please contact the School Office. 

An In-Year Application Form is required to process your application, these can be downloaded below:

School places - Kent County Council

Click here for an In-Year Application Form

For any Admissions enquiries please contact the School Office:

Tel:  01474 703398

Email: office@langafel.kent.sch.uk

Please read the information given below which gives details of our admission arrangements for the school.

 "The 1980 Education Act provides that an Authority shall comply with a parent's preference for a school, unless compliance with that preference is prejudicial to the provision of efficient education, or the efficient use of resources".

What this means is that parents can state a preference for a particular school and pupils will be admitted in accordance with parental preference whenever possible.

In the event that the school receives more applications than the number of places it has available, places will be given to those children who meet any of the criteria set out below, in order until all places are filled.

1. Highest priority will be given to looked after children and children adopted from care.
2. Priority will next be given to children with siblings at the school. Siblings include step-siblings, foster siblings, adopted siblings and other children living permanently at the same address.
3. Priority will next be given to children on the basis of social or medical need. Medical, health, social and special access reasons will be applied in accordance with the school’s legal obligations, in particular those under the Equality Act 2010. Priority will be given to those children whose mental or physical impairment means they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school. Equally, this priority will apply to children whose parents’/guardians’ physical or mental health or social needs mean that they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school. Such claims will need to be supported by written evidence from a suitably qualified medical or other practitioner who can demonstrate a special connection between these needs and the particular school.
4. Nearness of children’s homes to schools - The measurements are taken 'as the crow flies' using Ordnance Survey data.

School admissions criteria - Kent County Council

 The school's Published Admission Number (PAN) is: 45.