Skip to content ↓

Davington Primary School

Faversham, Kent

Primary Admissions

Admission to Primary Schools 2025

You must apply for a primary school place if:

  • your child is due to start primary or infant school (reception year)
  • your child is at infant school (year 2) and is due to start junior school (year 3)
  • your child is at primary school (year 2) and you want your child to move to junior school at the start of year 3

Primary School Admissions for September 2025

Applications for transfer to primary school for both reception year and year 3 (junior school) in September 2025 opened on 5 November 2024 and closed on 15 January 2025.

Applications are processed between 16 January and 15 April 2025.

If you provided an email address on your application KCC will email you on Wednesday 16 April 2025 after 4pm to tell you which school you have been offered.

Or log in from 5pm to see your offer online on Wednesday 16 April 2025.

If you have applied but your circumstances have changed and you need to amend your application email kentonlineadmissions@kent.gov.uk.

If you need advice call 03000 41 21 21 or email primaryadmissions@kent.gov.uk.

After you get your school offer

Once you receive your school offer, we recommend that you accept this offer of a school place for your child, even if it is not your first choice. By accepting the place, this will not affect your appeal and will guarantee your child has a school place if your appeal is unsuccessful. 

You can still join a waiting list and/or appeal for another school after you accept a school place. You can appeal for any of the schools you named in your application.

Appeals

If your child is due to start Primary school in September 2025, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Wednesday, 16 April 2025). You needed to submit your appeal before Tuesday, 20th May 2025 for it to be considered by Friday, 18th July 2025. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.

For further information or advice regarding the Appeals process please contact KCC Admissions 03000 41 42 22 or email appeals@kent.gov.uk for support.

 

What to do next

1. Accept a school place

To accept a school place, email the school directly using the contact details shown in your offer day email. You will need to tell them:

  • if you accept or refuse the place offered at the school
  • your child's full name and date of birth
  • your child's pupil ID (shown on your offer email)
  • your name
  • evidence of your address.

2. Supply proof of your address

Your address evidence should confirm that you and your child were living at the address on your application by the deadline date. You must provide at least 3 pieces of evidence.

First piece of evidence includes a copy of:

  • Council Tax statement for 2024 to 2025 or 2025 to 2026, or
  • a signed tenancy agreement or exchange of contracts with confirmed completion date.

Second piece of evidence should include a copy of at least one of the following:

  • Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit, Job Seeker Allowance, Disability Benefit letter or statement
  • a driving licence
  • a schedule of motor insurance
  • a utility bill, such as gas, water, electric or broadband
  • a payslip.

Third piece of evidence includes proof your child lives with you, which can be a copy of a:

  • doctor or hospital letter in their name
  • savings account or bank account in their name
  • Child Benefit statement.

This is not a full list of evidence. We or the school may ask for more evidence. We will do this if the current evidence does not prove you lived at the address on the application.

Your offer may be withdrawn if you fail to provide:

  • sufficient address evidence or
  • evidence that does not support your address at the final closing date for applications.

Additional information

Once you have accepted your place we will contact you in due course with further details of your child's admission.  We have a maximum intake of 60 children.

When we know our exact intake, we begin the process of ensuring every child’s entry into school is happy and relaxed. In the Summer Term before the September start, parents come to an Open Evening with their children to find out more about how we work and ask any questions they might still have. This meeting also gives parents the opportunity to meet and talk with the Reception class teacher and other support staff. At the start of September, just before starting school, each child is visited at home by our Reception class staff.

A prospectus of all primary schools and written explanation of the co-ordinated admissions scheme is available on request from Admissions or our school office. If you would like to read or print a copy of Primary Schools co-ordinated admissions scheme booklet you can click on the link below or go to the Kent County Council website www.kent.gov.uk/primaryadmissions.

For help and support with the online application process please call 03000 41 2121,  email kentonlineadmissions@kent.gov.uk or go to the KCC website for more information.