How to make an appeal

How to make an appeal

You cannot go through this appeal process if:

  • you are appealing for a lower preference school if you have been offered a higher preference school.
  • if your child has an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP), you will need to contact the Children and Young People Disability Service (CYPDS) via email at cypds@achievingforchildren.org.uk.
  • if your child has been permanently excluded from two or more schools for two years after the second or any subsequent exclusion.

If you have been refused a place at one of the following schools, you have the right to appeal to us against the decision. 

  • Alexander First.
  • Alwyn Infant and Nursery.
  • Boyne Hill CE Infant and Nursery.
  • Braywood CE First.
  • Cookham Rise Primary.
  • Courthouse Junior.
  • Eton Wick CE First.
  • Furze Platt Infant.
  • Furze Platt Junior.
  • Hilltop First.
  • Holy Trinity CE Primary Cookham.
  • Homer First.
  • Kings Court First.
  • Larchfield Primary and Nursery.
  • Oldfield Primary.
  • Riverside Primary.
  • South Ascot Village School.
  • St Edward's Catholic First.
  • St Michael's CofE Primary School.
  • The Queen Anne Royal Free CE First.
  • Waltham St Lawrence Primary.
  • Wessex Primary.
  • Wraysbury Primary.

Academies/Free schools that we also hear appeals for:

  • Altwood CofE School.
  • Braywick Court Free School.
  • Charters Academy.
  • Cox Green Academy.
  • Dedworth Green First.
  • Dedworth Middle.
  • Desborough College (Academy).
  • Eton Porny CE First.
  • Furze Platt Senior Academy.
  • Lowbrook Primary Academy.
  • Newlands Girls’.
  • St Edmund Campion.
  • St Francis Catholic Primary South Ascot.
  • The Windsor Boys’.
  • The Windsor Girls’.
  • Trevelyan Middle School.
  • Woodlands Park Primary.

If you have been refused a place at a school not listed, you will need to contact the school directly.