admissions

For entry at age eleven, parents need to complete Kent County Council’s Secondary Common Application (SCAF) Form, or else the Common Application Form supplied by their own LEA, if they do not live in Kent. For 2011 entry, the closing date for 11+ registration is 2 July 2010. Please refer to the key dates below (click here for the link to the KCC document).

Key Action	Key Dates in Scheme
Registration for Testing opens	Tuesday 1 June 2010
Closing date for Registration	Friday 2 July 2010
Test Date	Tuesday 14/ Wednesday 15 September 2010 for children attending a Kent Primary School. Saturday 18 September for out of county children.
Assessment Decision sent to Parents	Monday 18 October 2010
National Closing Date for Secondary Common Application Form (SCAF)	Sunday 31 October 2010
First Data Exchange with Neighbouring Authorities	by Friday 3 December 2010
Applicant Numbers to schools (including info for those needing to arrange additional testing)	by Friday 10 December 2010
Applicant details sent to schools to apply oversubscription criteria	by Tuesday 4 January 2011
Ranked Lists returned to LA by all schools	by Friday 21 January 2011
Secondary schools sent lists of allocated pupils - primary schools informed of destination of their pupils	by Tuesday 22 February 2011
National Offer Day: emails sent after 4pm and letters sent 1st class post.	Tuesday 1 March 2011
Schools send out welcome letters	Not before Friday 4 March 2011
Date by which places should be accepted or declined	Tuesday 22 March 2011

Parents are entitled to name up to four schools in an order of preference. The LEA will place the pupil in the most preferred school to which the pupil has gained admission. If a pupil has decided that Skinners' School is their preferred choice, it is important that the school is placed as their first choice. For further details on KCC Admissions to Secondary Schools in Kent 2009/10 click on the following link. Once we have 2010/11 details from KCC then we will update this link.

The school sends the list of pupil rankings to the LEA in January 2010. The LEA receives a list from each secondary school. When a pupil could be offered a place by more than one school, the school which was ranked higher on the Common Application Form will take the pupil.

Offer letters are sent out by the LEA on 1 March 2010. Parents should reply to Skinners' by 26 March 2010.  When places are declined and vacancies exist at the school a waiting list system is then applied.

The School will operate a waiting list for pupils who are not offered places in the first round of allocations.   Parents who wish to have their son considered by the School in the reallocation process must inform the School that they wish to be placed on the waiting list.  Prospective candidates on the waiting list will be ranked according to the school's entrance criteria.  As soon as a vacancy occurs, it will be filled by the candidate at the top of the waiting list. Parents of eligible pupils who are denied a place, have a right of appeal.