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Knole Academy Admissions Information Booklet
Knole Academy Admissions Information Booklet for Year 7 entry in September 2025
If you have any questions regarding Admissions, please email Admissions@knoleacademy.org.
Knole Academy is an all ability school with 120 grammar stream places which are offered to students who have passed, or who have just failed to pass the Kent selection test. Please see below for further information. In addition, Knole Academy is a specialist Expressive Arts College and as a result is able to select 10% of students based on their aptitude in one of the four expressive arts disciplines of dance, drama, music or visual arts. For further details on ‘aptitude' please contact our Admissions Secretary for information.
Admissions+
Once your child has been offered a place at Knole Academy, all new parents will receive a login and password for our new online admissions system, Admissions+. Parents will need to access this to complete their child's contact and welfare information prior to their starting date. Please click on the link below:
Admissions+
Expressive Arts Test
- Expressive Arts Exam – Please note this is only for Year 6 into Year 7 transition. Registration has now closed for 2025 Year 7 entry. Entry for 2026 will open in September 2025
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 in order 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 from 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.
Our Admissions Policy has been determined by the Governing Body and can be found below.
Admissions-Policy-2026-DRAFT.pdfKnole-Academy-Admissions-Consultation-Letter-Entry-2026.pdf
In Year Casual Applications
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 certificate and utility bill 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 informing you that the academy has no places for your child. You will then have an 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.
Kent County Council's Admissions Criteria for 2024/2025In Year Admissions Form
Appeals
Appeal Dates & Information Academic year 2024/2025
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY.
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 Appeals, the admission authority and panels have elected for all admissions appeals to be held online.
If you wish to appeal, please use this link to 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. Booklet Link
You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST state the grounds of your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you give the grounds of your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school.
Please note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated in 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 is as follows:-
The timetable for 'in-year' appeals
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Last day for lodging appeal forms |
20 School days after the decision letter informing you that you had not been offered a place. |
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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 appeals will be heard within 20 school days of the appeal form being lodged. |
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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 files to clerk@educationappeals.com Please note that slightly different rules will apply for any summer transfer appeals into Year 7. |
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Letter from the Clerk informing you of the decision of the independent appeal panel |
Due to the high number of appeals, an email 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. |
The timetable for Sixth Form appeals
| Last day for Lodging appeals |
4pm on Thursday 31 August 2024 to guarantee that your appeal will be heard in early to mid-September. You MUST state the reasons for your appeal on the online form and supply any documentary evidence at this stage to include a copy of your result sheet.
Please note the timetable is very short to enable those appellants who win appeals to start as early into the school year as possible.
The form will only be available from results day.
Click here for the 6th form appeal form. If this link does not work, it means you are too late to appeal. |
| Appeal date | The date will be during the month of September 2024. |
In addition, it is suggested that you:
Dowload and carefully read the Appeals Guide
You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST give the grounds for your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you state the grounds for your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school.
For more advice on how to lodge an appeal
NEW APPEAL LEAFLET
http://www.educationappeals.com/appealinfo/
