Admissions for Year 7 Entry • September 2025-2026
Applications for Year 7 entry are now open. To apply for a place at Knole Academy, please apply here. Please do not apply directly to the school.
If you have any questions regarding Admissions, please email Admissions@knoleacademy.org.
Prospectus
Admissions Timetable
| Key Action | Date |
|---|---|
| Application for Secondary transfer opens online | Monday 2 September 2024 |
| Open Day | Saturday 21st September 2024 |
| Deadline for Expressive Arts registration | Friday 11th October 2024 |
| National closing date for applications | Thursday 31st October 2024 |
| National Offer Day | Monday 3rd March 2025 (by 4pm) |
| Deadline for Late Applications (Also the date by which places should be accepted or declined by schools) | Monday 17th March 2025 |
| Deadline for lodging appeals | Monday 31st March 2025 |
| Open Day | Saturday 20th September 2025 |
Please refer to our Admissions Policy for our oversubscription criteria.
When appealing in-year admissions, the deadline for hearing the appeal is within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.
Admissions Documents (2025-2026)
Expressive Arts
Knole Academy is an expressive arts school, and 10% of the places (24) will be offered to students who show particular aptitude for performing arts and/or the visual arts.
Parents applying for their child/ren to sit the expressive art online test are expected to name Knole Academy as one of their school preferences on the SCAF. If parents do not have a strong preference for Knole Academy, we would ask them not to apply for a place to allow the places to be allocated to students who intend to attend the academy if successful. The tests are intended to identify aptitude, not ability.
If 10% of the places are not filled on artistic aptitude, they will become available to other applicants using the oversubscription criteria.
After the closing date, the work produced will be ranked and moderated by specialist teachers from the academy in the relevant subjects. The ranked list, to be used for selection by aptitude in expressive arts, is returned to the local authority to enable them to allocate places at the same time as other school places are allocated.
Appeals
If you have not been offered a place following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority. In accordance with the 2022 School Admission Appeals Code, the admission authorities and panels have elected for all admissions appeals to be held online.
If you wish to appeal, please complete your appeal online. Please do NOT use ANY other appeal form or send your form to your local authority. It is highly recommended that you download the explanatory booklet about appeals, which you should read before you complete the appeal form.
You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form, and you MUST state the grounds of your appeal when you lodge it. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you provide the grounds for your appeal. You may appeal to more than one school.
Please note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated the last THREE months. If you do not have access to a scanner, please take two photographs using a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.
If you wish to contact the clerk – email clerk@educationappeals.com
Information about Secondary Transfer appeals will be posted on this website before 28 February 2025.
| The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals | |
|---|---|
| Last day for lodging appeal forms | 20 School days after the decision letter informing you that you had not been offered a place. |
| Invitation letter giving details about your hearing will be sent by the Clerk to the Independent Appeal Panel | At least 10 school days before the hearing. This MAY be emailed. All in year appeal will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal form being lodged. |
| Closing date for any additional supporting evidence | FIVE working days before your hearing. You are advised that additional paperwork received on the day of the appeal hearing will not be taken into account. Please email to clerk@educationappeals.com Please note that slightly different rules will apply for any primary transfer appeals into Reception. |
| Letter from the Clerk informing you of the decision of the independent appeal panel | Due to the high number of appeals, an e mail is sent a few working days after your hearing with the decision of the panel. This is followed up around 10 working days later with a letter outlining the panels reasons. |
Appeals Documents
In-Year Admissions
For in-year casual applications, you will need to complete and return to us the appropriate form, which can be downloaded below, along with a copy of your child’s birth certificate and a utility/council tax bill as proof of address. Completed applications, birth certificates and utility bills should be sent directly to Knole Academy for the attention of the admissions secretary using the email address admissions@knoleacademy.org.
If the academy does not have space in a year group, you will be sent a letter, and then you will have the option to go on the academy’s waiting list and/or appeal. Names are kept on the waiting list for the remainder of the academic year, at the end of which all names are removed. Should you wish your child to remain on the waiting list for the next academic year, it is your responsibility to submit another IYCAF.
Contact Information
Knole Academy
Louise Dykes
Tel: 01732 454 608
Email: Admissions@knoleacademy.org
Kent County Council Admissions Information and Contacts