Applying for a September 2025 place
Our admissions process is coordinated as part of Barnet’s common application process. You will therefore need to complete the common application form to apply for a place. Applications can be made between 1 September and 31 October 2024 via the eAdmissions website. Secondary School National Offer Day is on Monday 3rd March 2025.
Further information on applying for a September 2025 secondary school place, including the Archer Academy, is available on Barnet’s website.
If you have any questions, please contact our Admissions Officer Sharon Walsh on [email protected] or phone 020 8365 4110.
You can find information about our admissions events here.
Appeal Dates & Information Academic year 2024/2025
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. In accordance with the 2022 School Admission Appeals Code Appeals, the admission authority and panels have elected for all admissions appeals to be held online.
If you wish to appeal, please use this link to complete your appeal online. 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. Booklet Link
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 note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated in the last THREE months. If you do not have access to a scanner, please take two photographs using a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.
If you wish to contact the clerk – email: [email protected]
Information about Secondary Transfer appeals will be posted on this website before 28 February 2025.
The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals is as follows: –
| The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals | ||
| Last day for lodging appeal forms | 20 School days after the decision letter informing you that you had not been offered a place. | |
| Invitation letter giving details about your hearing will be sent by the Clerk to the Independent Appeal Panel | At least 10 school days before the hearing. This MAY be emailed.
All in-year appeals will be heard within 20 school days of the appeal form being lodged. |
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| Closing date for any additional supporting evidence | FIVE working days before your hearing. You are advised that additional paperwork received on the day of the appeal hearing will not be taken into account. Please email files to [email protected]
Please note that slightly different rules will apply for any summer transfer appeals into Year 7. |
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| Letter from the Clerk informing you of the decision of the independent appeal panel | Due to the high number of appeals, an email is sent a few working days after your hearing with the decision of the panel. This is followed up around 10 working days later with a letter outlining the panels’ reasons. | |
| The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals | ||
| Last day for Lodging appeals | 4pm on Thursday 31 August 2024 to guarantee that your appeal will be heard in early to mid-September. You MUST state the reasons for your appeal on the online form and supply any documentary evidence at this stage to include a copy of your result sheet.
Please note the timetable is very short to enable those appellants who win appeals to start as early into the school year as possible. The form will only be available from results day. Click here for the 6th form appeal form. If this link does not work, it means you are too late to appeal. |
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| Appeal dates | The appeal will be during the month of September 2024. | |
Appeals process
You are entitled to appeal if you are not satisfied with the place you have been offered. Appeals submitted will be heard by a panel independent of the governing body.
Please note that no places are reserved for successful appeals, this means that any appeals allowed will increase the intake above the admission limit.
Although each appeal is decided on individual merit, only exceptional circumstances are likely to lead to a successful appeal. The fact that a school is coeducational or that the school is a child’s or parents’ particular choice, or that other schools with vacancies involve a long journey, is unlikely to lead to a successful appeal.
In particular, with regard to the Archer Academy, if you are living outside our priority postcodes, the fact that you live nearer to the school than people who are within the priority postcodes and who have been offered a place will not be considered grounds for an appeal. Our admissions policy clearly states that people living within N2, N3 and NW11 have priority over people living outside those postcodes, and so an appeal on these grounds may not be successful.
For all appeals, panels will consider the following grounds:
- Whether any mistakes were made in applying the admission arrangements and if the school could take extra students.
- Whether the admissions arrangements are lawful. (The panel must refer to the Local Authority and the Admissions Authority for the school, any admission arrangements that do not comply with the law.)
- Whether the problems faced by a child if they do not go to the school, outweigh the problems the school will face if they have to take the extra child.
- What the Archer Academy can offer that the allocated school cannot.