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In-Year Admissions
In Year Admissions (i.e. admissions for all year groups) from September 2025 to July 2026
Skinners’ Academy’s Admissions Policy 2024-2025, which can be accessed below, governs our in year admissions for this period. A copy of the Skinners’ Academy Prospectus 2025-2026, some additional information from the prospectus and a brief Skinners’ Academy Admissions FAQ sheet which you may find helpful can be accessed below.
Applications for In Year places at Skinners’ Academy should be made via the admissions team at Hackney Education here.
General
The Academy’s oversubscription criteria (which apply if there are more applications than places) are clearly explained in our Admissions Policy 2025-2026 which can be accessed below.
In Year Admissions Appeals
If you have not been offered a place at Skinners Academy Hackney following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal against that decision to an Independent Appeal Panel.
f you have not been offered a place at Skinners Academy Hackney following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal against that decision to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority. In accordance with the 2022 School Admissions Appeals Code, 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.
You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST state 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, but a separate form must be completed for each school for which you wish to appeal for a place. If you are appealing for more than one child, a separate form must be completed for each child.
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 with a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.
Full details about the hearing will be sent to you with your invitation to the hearing.
If you wish to contact the clerk – email: clerk@educationappeals.com
Timetable for appeals for mid-term applications is as follows:
| 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 30 school days of the appeal form being lodged. |
| Closing date for any additional supporting evidence | FIVE school days before your hearing – by 4pm latest. You are advised that additional paperwork received on the day of the appeal hearing will not be taken into account. |
| 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 15 school days later with a letter outlining the panels’ reasons. |
