National Allocation Day – 1st March 2024

Depending on the method used in applying for a school place, you will have received either an email during the afternoon of 1st March 2024 or a letter will have been sent on 1st March from your Local Authority notifying you of the school place your child has been allocated for September 2024. 

Your allocation is also available to view through your online account from the evening of the 1st March.

If your application to this school has been successful, you will receive a welcome letter from the school by 8th March 2024.

You will need to accept or decline your place as soon as possible or by 15th March at the latest via your local authority.  The school will also send you an acceptance form with your welcome letter which will need to be returned to the school. Acceptance via the school only is not acceptable.

If you have not been successful in your application to this school and would like to know your position on the waiting list, please email the school at admissions@croxleydanes.herts.sch.uk

First Round of Continuing Interest

Following National Allocation Day, all applicants who listed Croxley Danes School higher than the school they have been allocated will automatically be rolled onto the continuing interest list. Please inform the local authority if you do not wish to remain on the list. 

You will not remain on this school's continuing interest list if you have been allocated a school you ranked higher than this school. 

First continuing interest applicants allocated a different school at this time will be contacted by the local authority between 25th - 29th March.

Second (and final) Round of Continuing Interest

If you are allocated a different school you will be contacted by the Local Authority between 29th April - 3rd May 2024. If further vacancies occur they will be filled as they occur from the continuing interest list. The continuing interest list will continue until the end of December 2024 at which time if applicants wish to remain on the list they will need to complete an in-year application form which can be downloaded from the school website under Admissions / In Year Admissions.

It is worth noting that the school receives few withdrawals at this stage and it is therefore important that you make alternative arrangements for your child by accepting a place at another secondary school. There is no statistical analysis, from one year to the next, as to how many places will be accepted or declined by applicants.  

Appeals

All unsuccessful applicants are entitled to appeal.  

If you wish to appeal against the Governors’ decision not to award you a place you will need to set up an appeals account. The online appeals portal is the same for all parents and is found here: School Admission Appeal | Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire parents can access the codes they need in order to set up an appeals account via their admissions account. Parents/carers who live out-of-county or who applied on paper will need to contact Hertfordshire County Council Customer Service Centre on 0300 123 4043 in order to obtain their registration details to gain access. These will be sent via automated email. 

Appeals resulting from secondary transfer applications for admission in September 2024 will be heard according to the following timetable:

	ALLOCATION DAY	APPEALS LODGED BY	APPEALS TO BE HEARD BETWEEN
SECONDARY TRANSFER	1st March 2024	4:00pm on 28th March 2024	2nd May - 17th June 2024  (excluding 27th - 31st May)

• Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, whichever is the later date.

• Appellants will be sent notification of their appeal hearing at least 10 clear working days in advance of the hearing.

• Appellants will be sent a copy of the school's case 7 working days in advance of the hearing.

If an appellant wishes to submit further evidence, which was not included with their initial appeal, they should ensure this is received at least 7 clear working days,not counting the day of postage or the hearing, in advance of your appeal.

Please remember that any confidential medical/social evidence submitted to the Admission Authority (AA) in support of your application will not be provided to an appeal panel. If you wish to rely on this in support of your appeal you will need to submit this documentation to the appeals team.

If the appellant has a short document (like a doctor’s letter which was not previously available), this will be accepted up to 4 working days before the hearing. Any additional evidence received after this deadline will not be circulated and the panel may not accept any additional information taken to the hearing. 

Hertfordshire Local Authority are organising all of Croxley Danes School’s appeals. 

It is possible for you to remain on the Continuing Interest list without lodging an appeal. 

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