Admission appeals
If you have requested a place at a primary or secondary school in Hull that has no vacancies, you have the right of appeal to an independent panel.
You will receive an appeal form with the letter advising that you have not been offered a place at your preferred school. This can be returned via email to lsadmissions@hullcc.gov.uk.
Once the appeal form has been submitted, an appeal hearing date will be set within 30 school days of receipt of the form for in year transfers or 40 school days during the normal admissions round.
You will receive a letter 10 days before the hearing confirming the time and date of the hearing. Guidelines on what to do at the appeal will also be included in the pack. You must let democratic services know if an interpreter is required.
Schools we administer appeals for
We administer appeals for the below schools -
- Adelaide Primary School
- Ainthorpe Primary School
- Alderman Cogan Church of England Primary Academy
- Appleton Primary School
- Bellfield Primary School
- Bricknell Primary School
- Broadacre primary School
- Buckingham Primary
- Bude Park Primary School
- Christopher Pickering Primary School
- Cleeve Primary
- Clifton Primary School
- Collingwood Primary School
- Craven Primary Academy
- Dorchester Primary School
- East Park Primary
- Eastfield Primary School
- Endike Academy
- Estcourt Primary Academy
- Francis Askew Primary School
- Griffin Primary School
- Highlands Primary School
- Hull College 14–16
- Hull Trinity House Academy
- Kingswood Parks Primary School
- Lift Green Way Academy
- Lift Hall Road Academy
- Longhill Primary School
- Malet Lambert
- Marfleet Primary School
- Maybury Primary School
- Mersey Primary Academy
- Mountbatten Primary School
- Neasden Primary School
- Newington Academy
- Newland St John’s Church of England Academy
- Paisley Primary School
- Parkstone Primary School
- Pearson Primary School
- Rokeby Park Primary School
- Ron Dearing University Technical College
- Sirius Academy North
- Sirius Academy West
- Southcoates Primary Academy
- Spring Cottage Primary School
- St James’ Church of England Academy
- St Nicholas’ Primary School
- Stockwell Academy
- Stoneferry Primary School
- Sutton Park Primary School
- Thanet Primary School
- The Parks Primary Academy
- Thoresby Primary School
- Thorpepark Academy
- Victoria Dock Primary
- Wansbeck Primary School
- Westcott Primary School
- Wheeler Primary School
- Winifred Holtby Academy
- Woodland Primary School
Appeal outcome
Following the hearing, you will be sent a letter confirming the decision within 5 working days. If your appeal has been successful, it will contain instructions for what you will need to do next.
If your appeal has been unsuccessful, the letter will include the reasons why the Panel decided to refuse your appeal. The Panel consists of experienced and trained people who are independent of the council.
Once an appeal decision has been made, you will not be able to appeal to the same school until the following academic year. If you wish to challenge this decision, you will need to take advice on any further steps you can take.
Even if a place has been allocated at a school, the parent can still lodge an appeal for a school where an application has been made.
Parents and carers who feel that the way in which admission decisions have been reached by the Authority and the Appeal Panel are improper, may take their case online through the Department for Education website.
Alternatively complaints about a maintained school can be made in writing or by telephone to -
The Commission for Local Administration in England Ombudsman
PO Box 4771
Coventry
CV4 OEH
They can also be contacted by telephone 08456 021 983.
If your complaint is regarding the an academy school you can contact -
Complaints Team
Education and Skills Funding Agency
Cheylesmore House
Quinton Road
Coventry
CV1 2WT
You can also contact them by telephone on 0370 000 2288.
An appeal decision cannot be overturned by the Ombudsman or the Education and Skills Funding Agency. They can consider whether there has been any maladministration. If it is decided that something went wrong the DfE may ask the school to hold a new appeal hearing or recommend the school reviews its appeals process.