How to apply for a school place

If you submit an online application for your child’s primary school place. You will be advised that primary school places will be offered on Wednesday 16 April 2025.

This update is to provide you with some useful information about the process and point you to additional support that will be available online.

If you apply On Time and Online, you will be sent an email informing you which school has been offered to your child.  Emails will be sent on Wednesday 16 April 2025, and we expect that you will receive your email by 4pm. 

The exact time will depend on your email service provider. If you have not received any emails, please ensure you check your junk mail folder as the email could be in there. Your junk folder could be called 'junk', 'trash' or 'spam'.

Alternatively, you can log back into your account to see the result of your application.

All parents who make a paper or telephone application will be sent a decision letter via email or second-class post by Friday 18 April 2025.

Please do not contact Coventry City Council before you have received the offer of a school place.

If for any reason you have not received your letter or email by the 18 April 2025, we will provide you with information on the outcome of your application over the telephone. 

If you apply after the closing date of 15 January 2025 then you will not receive an offer of a school place on 16 April 2025. You will be notified by the end of May of your school place offer.

If you have not made an application by 15 January 2025, then please apply as soon as possible.

Next steps

If your circumstances change  after 16 April 2025 and you want to change your application to request different schools, then please email your request to Rising5@coventry.gov.uk  or call 024 7697 5445 by 30 April 2025 with any new requests.

If your child has not been offered a place at any of the schools you applied for, this will be because the school(s) received more applications than there were places available and other children met the admission criteria more closely than your child. The Local Authority is legally obliged to offer a school place and therefore your child will have been offered a place at the nearest school from the home address that had a place available after we had completed the allocation. If you are not happy with the distance of the school to your home address you may be entitled to a free travel pass for your child. The school place offered (preference 8) will not be removed from your child until a place can be offered at an alternative school.

You will be placed on the waiting lists for the schools where your application has been refused and you will have the right of appeal. In the meantime, you can make requests for places at other schools.  Please email your request to Rising5@coventry.gov.uk  or call 024 76975445 by 30 April 2025 with any new requests

From 1 May 2025 we will put together all late applications and changes of preference and complete a second round of offers by the end of the month. Any places which become available will be offered according to those who have the highest priority on the school waiting lists which are organised according to the admissions policy of each school.  

Waiting lists

If you do not receive an offer of a place at one of your higher preference schools your child's name will automatically be placed on the waiting lists for those schools and will remain on these lists until the end of the Autumn term (31 December). Applications are prioritised according to the admissions policy of each school.

Having a place on the waiting list is no guarantee that a place will become available. 

The position your child is at on the waiting list is as of the day you enquire. There will be no changes to the waiting list from 16 April 2025 until we have completed the second allocation round so information on changes to waiting list positions will only be available from 3 June 2025.

The Admissions team will contact you if a school place becomes available for your child from a waiting list.

Parents who have applied for places outside the city should contact the appropriate authority direct to discuss the appeals process and the position on any waiting lists. 

Appeals

You have the right to appeal at any school that you have applied for and had written confirmation of being refused admission. 

If you are considering the possibility of submitting an appeal, please read the advice regarding appeals on the School Admissions website carefully.

You can only appeal against the refusal of a place at a school you applied for.

Appeals are heard and decided by panels that are completely independent of the council and the school(s).

Consider the likelihood of your appeal being successful.

For example, were you realistic with the preferences you submitted for your child?

Appeals are generally only successful if you or your child have exceptional reasons for needing admission to a particular school.  Infant Class Size appeals are subject to the Government legislation around class sizes of no more than 30 pupils per class. Read more information. 

There are no guarantees that any appeal will be successful. 

Please find below a list of schools whose appeals are administered by the Local Authority. Should you wish to appeal for any of these schools, the closing date for submitting your written appeal is 23 May 2025 with a second-round closing date of 6 June 2024.

If you submit an appeal after 6 June 2025, it will be classed as a late appeal and will be heard after the on-time appeals, and it may not be heard before the beginning of September 2025.

• Aldermans Green Primary
• Aldermoor Farm Primary
• All Saints CE
• Allesley Primary
• Allesley Hall Primary
• Broad Heath Primary
• Cannon Park Primary
• Clifford Bridge Primary
• Coundon Primary
• Courthouse Green Primary
• Earlson Primary
• Edgewick Primary
• Ernesford Grange Primary
• Finham Primary
• Frederick Bird Primary
• Gosford Park Primary
• Grange Farm Primary
• Grangehurst Primary
• Hearsall Community Academy
• Henley Green Primary
• Hill Farm Academy
• Holbrook Primary
• Hollyfast Primary
• Howes Primary
• John Gulson Primary
• John Shelton Primary
• Joseph Cash Primary
• Keresley Grange Primary
• Little Heath Primary
• Longford Park Primary
• Manor Park Primary
• Moat House Primary
• Moseley Primary
• Mount Nod Primary
• Park Hill Primary
• Parkgate Primary
• Pearl Hyde Primary
• Potters Green Primary
• Radford Academy
• Ravensdale Primary
• Richard Lee Primary
• Sidney Stringer Primary
• Southfields Primary
• Sowe Valley Primary
• Spon Gate Primary
• St Andrews CE Infant
• St Christopher Primary
• Stivichall Primary
• Stoke Primary
• Stoke Heath Primary
• Templars Primary
• Walsgrave Primary
• Whitley Abbey Primary
• Whitmore Park Primary
• Whittle Academy
• Whoberley Hall Primary
• Willenhall Primary
• Wyken Croft Primary

For the above schools you will be able to access the appeal form online from 16 April 2025.

For any school NOT listed please check the individual schools web pages for further information on who to contact and the deadline dates.