Request for a child to be added to the primary, infant and junior school waiting list

If you'd like your child to be added to a waiting list, you should submit a waiting list request form within 10 school days of your offer.

You will need to complete the waiting list request form by Tuesday 14 May 2024 for it to be processed in the first round of reallocation from 10 June 2024.

Any waiting list requests submitted after 14 May will be processed after 10 June 2024.

We hold the waiting lists on behalf of all Medway schools until 31 December 2024. All waiting lists held by us will close on 31 December 2024.

Before you apply

You should read all of the information below before submitting a waiting list form. 

The school place your child was offered

You do not need to refuse the school place offered to your child to be placed on the waiting list for other Medway schools.

Refusing the place offered does not give you a higher priority on a waiting list.

We strongly advise that you do not refuse your offer. We advise you accept it, to ensure your child has a place secured even if you want to go on the waiting list for other Medway schools.

If you refuse the place offered, the place will be withdrawn from your child. If you change your mind about this, you'll need to ask for your child’s name to be added to the waiting list for the original school. There is no guarantee you will get the place back.

If you are offered a school place from a waiting list, we'll automatically withdraw any other school place offer you hold so it can be offered to another child.

Waiting lists and schools

Waiting lists must legally be held in order of the school’s oversubscription criteria, which can be found in the individual school’s admissions policy on their website. A child’s position on a waiting list is not based on when you requested for them to be added to it.

You can ask for your child to go on the waiting list for any of the Medway schools you named on your application that have not offered your child a place.

If you live in Medway, you can also request for your child to be placed on the waiting list of Medway schools that you did not name on your application.

Your child can be added to as many waiting lists for Medway schools as you wish. Our request form allows you to name the schools in your order of preference.

Junior transfer

If your request is for a junior transfer place for September, you can only apply for a junior school (year 3-6).

If you want to apply for a year 3 place in a primary school please use the in-year admissions process.

Re-allocation and waiting list time

After 10 June 2024, we'll start to re-allocate (offer) any school places that have become available in Medway schools since the national offer day.

Your child will remain on the waiting list until one of the following happens:

• you're offered a place at the school you are on a waiting list for
• you're offered a place at a higher named preference
• you ask to be removed from the waiting list
• the waiting lists closes on 31 December.

If you are on waiting lists at the end of December, we'll contact you to let you know it is closing and what you can do next. If you still wish to pursue a place after this time, you'll need to reapply as an in-year admission.

If your child is offered a place from a waiting list

If a place is offered to your child from the waiting list for one of the schools you have requested, we'll send you an offer in writing.

If the place offered is at the school you have listed as your highest preferred school, we'll automatically remove your child’s name from all other waiting lists.

If the place offered is not at the school you have listed as your highest preferred school, we'll remove your child’s name from any lower named school waiting list. They will remain on the higher named school waiting lists.