Admission Appeals for September 2024

If your child is due to start secondary school in September 2024, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Friday 1 March 2024).

You needed to submit your appeal by Thursday 28 March 2024 for it to be considered by 16 June 2023. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

Appeals should be sent via email to ruth.rivers@rochestergrammar.tsat.uk or posted to: Mrs Rivers, Rochester Grammar School, Maidstone Road, Rochester, Kent, ME1 3BY.