Appeals

Year 7 September 2025

Timeline for appeals:

• Deadline for submitting an appeal form:  31 March 2025
• Appeals received by the deadline.  The requirement for appeals to be heard is 40 school days.  This means that appeals will be heard by 18 June 2025 wherever possible.
• Appeals received after the deadline.  The Trust will ensure that appeals are heard as soon as reasonably practicable and, where possible, before the start of the academic year.

In all cases parents will be given at least 10 school days’ written notice of an appeal hearing.

Before making an appeal, please read the information in the Appeals Guide and FAQ (available in the Downloads section below). This document includes information about the admissions process and waiting list, some frequently asked questions and statistics, and details of the appeals procedures.

To submit an appeal for year 7 September 2025, please complete the appeals form here. Forms can also be requested by e-mail or post by contacting the Dixons Trust Admissions & Appeals office via the contact details given at the bottom of this page.

In-Year

The academy is currently full in each year group. Parents can apply for their child to join the waiting list; details of how to do this can be found on the Admissions page under the heading In-Year admissions.

Before you can make an appeal, you must first have applied to the academy for a place and have completed a recent In-Year Application Form for the local authority. Once you have received a letter advising you that a place cannot be offered, you can then proceed to make an appeal for the academy if you wish to.

The academy can only proceed to the appeals stage if the year group is full. Places are not ‘reserved’ for those whose appeals are upheld, so any upheld appeal will result in the year group being over the admission number.

Before making an appeal, please read the appeals procedures and appeals FAQ documents, which can be found in the downloads section below.

To submit an appeal, please complete the in year appeals form here.

If you are unable to complete the form please telephone the number given below and ask to speak to the Appeals Coordinator. 

Contact details:

Telephone: 01274 089780 – option 7