Academy Admissions

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Welcome to the Harris Academy Riverside admissions page.

The local authority administers admissions for Harris Academy Riverside.

Information about the admissions process can be found on the local authority website by clicking here. 

Information aout important dates for admissions can be found by clicking here.

Forms and documents can be downloaded by clicking here. See below to download an appeals form.

Parents and carers will recently have received notification of their offer for a secondary place. The local authority will have notified places on 1st March 2018.

If you have received notification that you have a place at Harris Academy Riverside, we will contact you in the next few weeks with various information and to arrange to meet you.

Appeals

Please note that the academy does not have any authority or influence over the offer of places which are determined in accordance with our oversubscriptions criteria which can be found in our admissions policy. The offer of places is administered by the local authority.

If you have been unlucky and have not secured a place at the academy despite applying to the local authority for one, and feel that you have grounds, then you are entitled to appeal.

A parent or carer who wishes to appeal against the decisions of the local authority in offering places should give notice that they intend to appeal by e mailing the academy at info@harrisriverside.org.uk.

Parents or carers appealing will then be asked to complete an appeals form and submit it to the academy with any supporting evidence or documents. The appeals form can be downloaded from this page (below) or the academy can provide one.

The deadline for appeals is 4pm on Monday 16th April 2018.

Appeals will be held during June 2018. Appeals are heard by an independent panel.The appeals panel should take into account your arguments, any arguments put forward by the academy and the academy's admissions policy and oversubscriptions criteria.

Decisions of the appeal panel are binding on all parties. Only one appeal is allowed per applicant.