Admissions and Appeals

National Primary School Allocation Day is in April 2027.

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National primary offer day will be in April.

If you have applied online, you will receive an email from Buckinghamshire Council.

If you have made a paper application and provided Buckinghamshire Council with an email address, you will receive an email.

The admission policy can be found on our policy page.

The second normal point of admission is into Year 3.  Children typically enter Longwick into Year 3 in September of the school year in which they turn eight. Longwick’s admission number is increased by 2 for entry into Key Stage 2 and the class sizes are set at 32.  As a Voluntary Controlled School, all admissions are regulated by the Coordinated Admission Scheme for Primary Schools in Buckinghamshire.

An application for your child to join our school can be made at any time during the school year.  Please contact the school office where we will be able to advise on how to navigate the process. These applications will be processed through the “County In-Year Admissions Scheme”. Applications for admission at any time may be made by parents/carers on-line.

The Admissions Criteria as set down in the County Booklet is adhered to in the case of reviews. Headteacher and representatives from the Local Authority meet to discuss cases which go to review.

This would normally happen when numbers over 30 in KS1 occur. 

 

Longwick, Owlswick, Lower Icknield Way from Mill Lane cross-roads southwards. Forty Green, Holly Green, Pitch Green, Bledlow, and the hamlet of Ilmer.

 

Free transport by coach is available between Longwick and Bledlow, and for children aged rising 5 to rising 8 who live

2 or more miles from the school. For children aged 8 years and above, transport is still available, providing the distance between home and school is 3 miles or more. However, a charge is made by the Local Authority for this older age group. Parents who require transport for their children should make contact with Buckinghamshire Council using the hyperlink below.

 

Children transfer to a range of secondary schools including selective schools in Aylesbury or High Wycombe.

Below are links to our Admissions Policy and to relevant Buckinghamshire Council web pages to help you get all the information that you need. However if you still have questions please do ask.