Join a waiting list

You can add your child to a waiting list for any of the schools in your original application. 

If a space becomes free, the school uses its admissions policy to decide who they can take. 

That means: 

• it will look at things like how close your child lives and other individual factors 
• it won’t decide on a first-come-first-served basis

How to join a waiting list

We are responsible for the waiting lists for local authority controlled schools and manage the waiting list for the following academies:

Primary:

• Breakwater Academy
• Burfield Academy
• Chantry Community Primary School
• Christ Church CE Primary and Nursery Academy
• Churchwood Primary Academy
• Dudley Infant Academy
• Hawkes Farm Academy
• High Cliff Academy
• Hollington Primary Academy
• Hurst Green CE Primary School
• Langney Primary Academy
• Little Common School
• Newick CE Primary School
• Ninfield CE Primary School
• Northiam CE Primary School
• Parkland Infant School
• Peacehaven Heights Academy
• Phoenix Academy
• Robsack Wood Primary Academy
• St Andrew's CE Infants
• St John's Meads CE Primary School
• St Leonards CE Primary Academy
• St Paul's CE Academy
• Sedlescombe CE Primary School
• Shinewater Primary School
• Silverdale Primary Academy
• Telscombe Cliffs Academy
• The Baird Primary Academy
• The Haven Voluntary Aided CE Methodist Primary School
• West St Leonards Primary Academy
• White House Academy

Secondary:

• The Hastings Academy
• The St Leonards Academy
• The Turing School.

For all other own admissions authority schools, please contact the school directly.

To join a waiting list, please email your child’s:

• name
• date of birth
• address
• relevant siblings and
• the name(s) of the schools whose waiting list you wish to join

To  wlinyear@eastussex.gov.uk

Staying on a waiting list

You need to renew the request each term to keep your child on a waiting list. If you don’t renew we’ll remove your child’s name.

For local authority controlled schools and the academies listed above, please email in year waiting list giving us:

• your child’s name and
• reminding us of the school(s) in question.

For all other schools, contact the school directly.

What happens if your application is successful

Before your child starts school: 

• we’ll automatically withdraw your original allocation and replace it with the new school 
• we’ll let you know in writing that we’ve changed your child’s school 

After your child starts school: 

• we’ll give you 10 school days to accept or refuse the place 

If you wish to withdraw from a waiting list at any time, you must do so in writing to the Admissions and Transport team