Step 5: Outcome of your in-year application


Summary of this step

We or the school will process your application and will contact you with the outcome.


Who processes your application

Once you have submitted your application, it will be processed either by us or by the admission authority for the school(s) that you have applied to.

For all community and voluntary controlled schools

We will consider if the school has vacancies and if so, whether they are able to offer a place. We will write to let you know the outcome.

For the following academies and foundation, free, trust and voluntary aided schools

Elmbridge

  • Burhill Primary
  • Chandlers Field Primary
  • Hinchley Wood Primary School
  • Long Ditton Infant and Nursery
  • St Andrew's Church of England Primary (Cobham)
  • Thames Ditton Infant School

Epsom and Ewell

  • Auriol Junior
  • Cuddington Community Primary
  • Cuddington Croft Primary
  • Epsom Primary and Nursery School
  • The Mead Infant
  • Meadow Primary
  • The Vale Primary
  • West Ewell Primary and Nursery

Guildford

  • Guildford Grove Primary
  • Sandfield Primary
  • Stoughton Infant
  • Weyfield Primary Academy

Mole Valley

  • The Ashcombe
  • Eastwick Infant
  • Eastwick Junior

Reigate and Banstead

  • Carrington School
  • Hatchlands Primary
  • Holmesdale Community Infant
  • Lime Tree Primary
  • Merstham Primary
  • Salfords Primary
  • Sandcross Primary and Nursery
  • St John's Primary (Redhill)
  • Warren Mead Infant
  • Warren Mead Junior
  • Woodmansterne Primary
  • Wray Common Primary

Runnymede

  • Ottershaw Christ Church Church of England Infant
  • Ottershaw Christ Church Church of England Junior
  • Pyrcroft Grange Primary
  • Sayes Court Primary

Spelthorne

  • Meadhurst Primary
  • Springfield Primary
  • Stanwell Fields Church of England Primary
  • Town Farm Primary

Surrey Heath

  • Cordwalles Junior
  • Crawley Ridge Infant
  • Crawley Ridge Junior
  • Cross Farm Infant
  • Hammond Junior
  • Lightwater Village
  • Lorraine School and Nursery
  • Pine Ridge Infant and Nursery
  • South Camberley Primary

Tandridge

  • Hamsey Green Primary
  • Holland Junior

Waverley

  • Folly Hill Infant Academy
  • Godalming Junior
  • Loseley Fields Primary
  • Moss Lane
  • Park Mead Primary

Woking

  • Broadmere Primary
  • Brookwood Primary
  • Byfleet Primary
  • Maybury Primary
  • New Monument Primary Academy
  • Sythwood Primary
  • Westfield Primary

We will consider if the school has vacancies and if so, whether they are able to offer a place. We will write to let you know the outcome.

For all other academies and foundation, free, trust and voluntary aided schools

The school will consider whether it has any vacancies and if so, assess whether it is able to offer a place. The school will write to let you know the outcome.

When will I receive the outcome of my application?

Applications are processed as quickly as possible, usually within 15 school days of receiving your fully completed application form.

Applications received towards the end of the summer term or during the summer holidays may not receive an outcome until the start of the autumn term, due to the unavailability of schools during the summer break and the reforming of waiting lists.

If you receive more than one offer of a place

If you have applied to more than one school, your child may receive more than one offer of a place.

We monitor multiple offers to ensure that no parent holds on to more than one school place for any longer than it reasonably takes to make a decision.

If you are not offered a place at your preferred school

We have a duty to ensure that there is a school place available for every child in Surrey who wants one. As such, if your child lives in Surrey and is not already in school and if it is not possible to offer you a place at any of the schools that you have applied for, we will identify an alternative school place for your child which will normally be the nearest suitable available school with a vacancy.

Continue to step 6: Accept or decline a place