Admission to Westgate Academy is usually in the September following your child’s seventh birthday.

We have excellent links with our feeder schools and every effort is made to ensure a smooth transition from infant to junior school. This includes opportunities for children to visit the school and an information evening for parents.

The admission year in Year 3 where our intake limit at present is 120 (sometimes referred to as PAN). Where the number of applications for places at Westgate Academy exceeds the number of spaces, the governors will apply the oversubscription criteria as per the current policy. These are:

• Children in the care of the Local Authority
• There is a brother or sister on roll at the school at the time of application
• The school is the nearest one to the home address (as defined in note 3 in the current policy - see below)
• The distance from the home to the school, priority will be given to the child living closest to the school (as defined  in the current policy - see below). The Nearest School Tool can be found here: -  Find your nearest school – Lincolnshire County Council.

Full details can be seen in the booklet ‘Going to Primary School in Lincolnshire’, which is available from the school or online at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions.

For further information, please click on the link below for more information on admissions:

Lincolnshire County Council Admissions

 

How to Appeal

Should you fail to receive an offer of a place at Westgate Academy, you have the right to appeal to an independent Appeals Panel, whose decisions are binding on the school and the local authority.

Appeals should be addressed in writing (using the Admission Appeal form below) to the Clerk to Governors at the Academy within 20 school days of receiving the decision letter. The envelope should be clearly marked “Admission Appeal”. The appeal will be heard within 30 school days of the deadline for receipt of appeal applications.

Parents/carers will receive written notification of the date and time of their appeal hearing, which they can attend to explain their case. This will include a final deadline for submitting any additional information. If they wish, parents may be accompanied by an adviser or friend. Following the appeal, the Clerk to the Governors will write to parents with the decision.

Please note that Westgate Academy will not accept repeat appeals for places in the same academic year, unless there are significant and material changes in the circumstances of the parent, child or school which could warrant a further application. Such circumstances could include moving house or medical reasons. In accordance with the School Admission Appeals Code 2022 , the Aspire Schools Trust Board (as the admission authority for Westgate Academy) must set a timetable for organising and hearing admission appeals. The timetable will apply to appeals for admission to Westgate Academy.

Appeals in respect of late applications will generally be heard within 40 school days of the appeal being received by school. Appeals in respect of in-year applications will be heard within 30 school days of receipt.

Appellants (the person(s) lodging an appeal) will receive a letter notifying them of the date, time and venue of the the appeals panel appointed to hear their appeal at least 10 school days before the hearing.

Appellants and the admission authority must provide the clerk to the appeals panel with any documents they wish to submit to the panel no later than 6 working days before the hearing.

The clerk to the panel will send to the panel, the appellants and the admission authority all the documentary evidence to be considered at the hearing at least 5 working days before the hearing.

The clerk to the panel will send a letter to appellants and the admission authority notifying them of the Panel’s decision and the reasons for the decision within 5 working days of the hearing wherever possible.

Link to Admission Appeal Form