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The King's School Appeals Form

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your application for a school place, you may wish to appeal to an independent appeal panel. If you wish to appeal, please complete and submit the form below. The School's Admission Policies can be found here.



If your child has an Education, Health and Care Plan, you must contact the Special Educational Needs Team for your Local Authority. For Lincolnshire County Council, the telephone number is 01522 553332.



For in year appeals, please see the Schools Admissions Appeals Code 2.3 for deadlines. For deadlines associated with transition from Primary to Secondary appeals, please see Appealing for a school place. Please inform the school your child has been allocated if you have a pending appeal, and you do not wish to start the allocated school until the result of the appeal is known.   



You should receive an immediate acknowledgement of your appeal being lodged from noreply@juniperwebsites.co.uk.


Details of child that is the subject of the appeal.


Details of parent or legal guardian appealing on behalf of child.


Please note that if the appeal is for a child in Year 6 to Year 11, this section must be completed by a parent or legal guardian. An appeal for a Sixth Form place can be made by both the child and parent. If this is the case, please complete this with the correct contact details depending on who is appealing. See School Admission Appeals Code for further details regarding Sixth Form appeals.


Details of addresses and other children living in the home.


Please provide the child's home address below. The home address is considered as the address where the child lives for the majority of term time with a parent (as defined in Section 576 of the Education Act 1996). Where a child lives normally during the school week with more than one parent at different addresses, the home address accepted for the purposes of school admissions will be the one where the child spends the majority of term time. If a parent can show that their child spends an equal amount of time at two addresses during term time with a parent, they can choose which address to use on the application. If a parent has more than one home, we will accept the address where the parent and child normally live for the majority of the school term as the home address.

Other children (under 19 years old) living in the same household as the child


If you are moving house, please give details of new address and proposed date of move below. If you are likely to change address between the date you send in your notice of appeal and the date you wish your child to start at the school, the Panel will only consider your proposed address if you have entered into a definite legal commitment to move, for example, exchanged contracts on a house purchase or signed a lease tenancy agreement. If no such legal commitment has been made on your part, then the Panel will only take account of your present address when considering your appeal. In that case, it may be in your best interests to ask for the appeal hearing to be deferred until you enter into the appropriate legal commitment. That, however, is a matter for you to decide.


Further Details


Reason for appeal


Please give the reasons why you want a place for your child at the school in the box below. You may continue in a separate document and submit this along with any supporting evidence (please see next question).

The panel can consider anything that you feel is relevant. 


Please send electronic copies (preferably PDF) of any supporting documents to louise.bremner@kings.lincs.sch.uk.

These need to be clearly labelled with the child's full legal name and numbered appropriately.

Please complete the box below to indicate the number and names of documents you will submit.

Alternatively, please submit this information in an e-mail with the supporting documents.


I wish to exercise my right of appeal under the School Standards & Framework Act 1998 on behalf of the child named above. By submitting this form, I am confirming that I am the person with legal parental responsibility for the child named above, or I have obtained prior written permission to submit this appeal from the person with legal parental responsibility (parent or guardian) for the child.

The information given is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

I understand that if I do not attend the hearing, the appeal will be heard in my absence using the information I have provided.

I agree for my data to be stored electronically for two years after the appeal hearing and to be contacted by post, e-mail, text and telephone.

I agree for copies of paperwork submitted to be sent to The King's School's legal representatives, who will then share this with the Independent Appeal Panel.


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