National offer day
You must accept your offer by Thursday 30 April to secure your child's school place.
Online applications
If you applied online:
- you will receive an email on the evening of Thursday 16 April, advising you to log back into your eAdmissions account to view and accept your offer
- you will not receive an offer letter in the post
- all relevant information will be available on the eAdmissions website.
If you have changed your email address and do not receive an email, you can still log into your account on the evening of offer day.
Late online applications
If you applied online after Thursday 15 January, you will not be able to view your outcome online. An offer letter will be sent via email or post in accordance with our late application timetable (available after national offer day).
Access your eAdmissions account
Paper applications
If you submitted a paper application, your offer letter will be emailed with full instructions on how to accept your school offer.
Application outcomes
For data protection reasons, our school placement and admissions team cannot advise parents/guardians of the outcome of their application over the telephone.
Please note: If you submitted an application after Thursday 15 January, you will receive an outcome following the late application rounds. For further details and late allocation timescales please contact our office via email on admissions@hillingdon.gov.uk.
After accepting your offer
Once you have accepted the offer, we will advise the school, who will contact you directly between May and July, with all the relevant admission information. If you have accepted an offer from a school in another local authority, then we will still notify them on your behalf.
If you do not respond to the offer by Thursday 30 April, you will be contacted again for a response. At that time if you do not reply, we will withdraw the offer we have made and offer it to another child.
Declining your offer
If you applied online, you can decline the offer online. Please ensure you state the reason(s) for the decline, for example if you have moved out of the area. If you are unhappy with the school offer, you are strongly advised to accept it. This will not affect any of your higher preferences and your child will be placed on the waiting list for all schools you named as a higher preference. The local authority has a duty of care to provide an alternative offer for a suitable school with a current vacancy.
Waiting lists
Hillingdon Council hold the waiting lists for all community schools. All non community schools manage their own waiting lists, therefore please contact them directly. If the school is outside of the Hillingdon borough, please contact the borough in which the school is located, to query whether the waiting list is provided by the school or the local authority.
Please do not contact schools in Hillingdon any sooner than four weeks from national offer day, as waiting lists will not be available.
Please note: Any child who is not offered a place at their preferred school in Hillingdon, will automatically be added onto the waiting list.
Appeals
You have the right of appeal under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, against the refusal of a place at any of the schools for which you have applied.
For Community schools please contact the Local Authority.
If you wish to appeal for an academy, foundation, free or voluntary aided (faith) school you must contact the school direct to obtain the appeal documentation.
Alternatively, if the school is outside Hillingdon, please contact the borough in which the school is situated within the next few days to obtain the procedure and the date by which an appeal must be received by them
Late rounds of allocation
Late allocations will be from the end of May. Please contact our office for further details.