School admission arrangements

Consultation for September 2023-2024 school admission arrangements

Cheshire West and Chester local authority is consulting on its school admission arrangements for 2023-2024 academic year. Consultation will take place between 17 November 2021 and 5 January 2022 in accordance with the timescales published in the School Admissions Code, September 2021.

Once the consultation period has closed, any responses received by 5 January 2022 will be reviewed and considered. The final admission arrangements policy will be determined by 28 February 2022 and published on this page

Determined admission arrangements for 2023-2024

Cheshire West and Chester Cabinet determined the local authority's 2023-2024 admission arrangements and coordinated admissions scheme on 9 February 2022 in accordance with the statutory requirements of the school admissions code which states that admission authorities must determine their arrangements by 28 February.

Determined admission arrangements for 2022-2023

Cheshire West and Chester Cabinet determined the local authority's 2022-2023 admission arrangements and coordinated admissions scheme on 10 February 2021 in accordance with the statutory requirements of the school admissions code which states that admission authorities must determine their arrangements by 28 February.

2021-2022

2021-2022 admission arrangements were determined on 5 February 2020.

Department for Education

Copies of the school admissions code are available from the Gov.UK website.

Schools adjudicators

Adjudicators work independently of the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in deciding on objections to published admission arrangements and variations of determined admission arrangements.

Local Authority 2016 report to The Office of Schools Adjudicator (OSA) (PDF, 283KB)

Further information on schools adjudicators can be found at the Office of the Schools Adjudicator.