Applications for children due to start secondary school in September 2025 will open on 2nd September 2024 and will close on 31st October 2024.

For admissions into next year’s Year 7, parents and carers are required to apply through Medway Councils parent portal, more details on registering can be found HERE.

Please note that all students must sit a Fair Banding assessment with Brompton Academy to be considered for a place within the Academy. Without sitting this test at Brompton Academy on one of the dates below any application cannot be considered. Register for Fair Banding sessions HERE.

Further information on Admissions Arrangements for 2025/2026 can be found HERE.

Please note that admissions for the Eliot Centre Specialist Resource Provision are not managed in the same way. Please click HERE for more information.

Key Information

2nd September 2024: Applications Open

6th September 2024: Registration for 14th September Fair Banding Closes

14th September 2024: First Fair Banding Session takes place

19th September 2024: Brompton Academy Open Event

28th September 2024: Second and final Fair Banding Session takes place

31st October 2024: Secondary school applications close

3rd March 2025: National offer day

28th March 2025: Deadline for accepting/refusing offers, waiting requests and appeal requests

21st April 2024: Re-allocation of school places and processing of late applications

31st December 2025: End of admissions process and waiting lists close

The Over-Subscription Criteria

If the number of applications for admission to the Academy received via the Medway co-ordinated scheme is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. After the admission of students with EHCP where Brompton Academy is named on the EHCP after the Academy has been consulted and it has been agreed, the remaining applicants will be split into the quintile bands based on their NFER scores within the national profile. Within each band the criteria will be applied in the order in which they are set out below: 

a. Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) students and those children in public care (CIC).

b. Current family association (i.e. elder brother or sister in the Academy at time of application who will still be attending when the applicant child is admitted). In this context, brother or sister means:

• A natural brother or sister (including adopted siblings).

• Step brother or sister.

• Foster brother or sister.

• Those who live as brother or sister in the same house.

c. Children of staff.

d. Nearness of children’s homes.

e. Random selection within bands.

The Medway Common Application Form (CAF) should be used for applications to Brompton Academy.  These forms, found in the ‘Admissions to Secondary School’ brochure should be returned to the Primary School Headteacher by the due deadline.  

Waiting Lists

Where in any year Brompton Academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until at least late October. This will be maintained by the UKAT Academies Trust and it will be open to any parent/carer to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application. Children’s position on the waiting list will be be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria set out above where places become vacant they will be allocated to young people on the waiting lists in accordance with the oversubscription criteria.

At Brompton Academy we operate a ‘Fair Banding’ admissions process to ensure we have a balanced proportion of students from across the whole ability range – a comprehensive intake. Students who wish to apply for a place at Brompton Academy must take a Fair Banding test to be considered for admission to the Academy and this will be required if their parents/carers intend to put Brompton Academy on the common admissions form – outlined below (CAF).

Registration for the 2024 Fair Banding Test (Year 7 for September 2025) closes on Friday 21st September 2024.

This test is usually a cognitive ability test(s) – it is not a pass or fail test. Students are asked to take it and their scores on the test are then used to place them in an ability band. Students taking the test are placed in one of five ability bands representative of the national ability range. Please click HERE for information regarding the number of student places in each ability band.

These banding arrangements are an effective practice in schools providing fair oversubscription criteria, provided arrangements are fair objective and not used as a means of unlawfully admitting a disproportionate number of high ability children.

If places in a band are not filled or become vacant, for example, because parents/carers accept offers of places at other schools, and no applicants in those bands remain without a place, they must be evenly filled by children falling into the next nearest bands (i.e. the bands on either side, or below or above, if the first child is from the band above then the next must be from the one below). This allocation is carried out randomly by the Local Authority.

Banding Children in Care or Children with an Educational Health Care Plan (EHCP)

Children in Care and children with an EHCP where the Academy is named, who apply in the normal admissions round, must be included in any banding arrangements and given top priority within each band.

Parents/carers who wish to move their child to Brompton Academy during the academic year are welcome to apply. However, please note that there is no guarantee a place will be available at the time of the request. Once the application has been received, the Academy will review it and respond in writing within 15 days, informing the parents of the outcome.

Please complete the application form HERE and return via Royal Mail for the attention of “Brompton Academy Admissions” or via e-mail to admissionsba@universityofkentacademiestrust.org.uk

Friday 1st March 2024: The offer of a place in a school will be given.

Thursday 28th March 2024: This is the date by which an appeal should be submitted to this school for a place if you do not want the one you have been allocated.

Monday 22nd April 2024: This is the deadline for submission of any additional evidence. No originals please.

You have the right to a face-to-face appeal but if you would like this heard in your absence based on the information that you provide, please notify the school as soon as possible.

You are reminded that all applicants for a place in this school should have taken the Fair Banding Test.  If your child did not do this and you wish to appeal for a place in Year 7, then you should have a very good reason with supporting evidence to verify this.

Provisional start dates for Brompton Academy appeals will be the week beginning the 3rd June 2024.

Once you have registered for an appeal you will be sent a letter and asked to contact the school to be given an appeal date and time. If the school does not hear from you, then it will be assumed that you do no longer wish to appeal for a place.

Your appeal should state your reasons for your request and any additional information/documentation/appendices should be submitted five days before the appeal to allow time for it to be copied and distributed to all the interested parties. At least 10 working days before your appeal, unless you choose to waive this right, you will be sent detailed information regarding the process and also the date, time, place and names of the independent panel members who will hear the appeal.

This school is heavily over-subscribed and it is important that you prepare your case very carefully taking note of the guidance that will be sent to you.

The school is unable to guarantee that any original work/evidence/folders, submitted as part of the appeal, will be returned. Appellants may wish to submit copies in advance and then take important original documents verifying evidence to the appeal. 

Appellants are respectfully asked to note that an excessive amount of supporting evidence should not be necessary. Guidance regarding this matter will be given once the appeal has been submitted.

If you have any queries regarding appeals, then please email admissionsba@universityofkentacademiestrust.org.uk.

If you have not been offered a place following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority.

If you wish to appeal, please use this link 'Appeal form In-Year Admission to Secondary Education' to download and complete an appeals form.

Completed forms should be returned via Royal Mail for the attention of “Brompton Academy Admissions” or via e-mail to admissionsba@universityofkentacademiestrust.org.uk

Please do NOT use ANY other appeal form or send your form to your local authority. It is highly recommended that you download the explanatory booklet about appeals which you should read before you complete the appeal form.

Appeals Explanatory Booklet - Education Appeals

You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST state the grounds of your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you give the grounds of your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school.

Please click HERE to view the Local Authorities admission arrangements for schools and academies in Kent and Medway including information on Brompton Academy.

Please click HERE when applying for a secondary school/academy.

Please click HERE regarding how to choose your school/academy.

Click HERE to find out about key dates for admissions to secondary schools/academies.

Please click HERE to see Brompton Academy’s Open Days information.