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Waiting lists for new applications

You can ask to be added to the waiting list for any school that you have applied for and where you have been refused a place.

Almost all schools in North Somerset are Own Admission Authority Schools, such as Academies. These are run by the school’s governing body or Multi Academy Trust (MAT) and not the Council, including the responsibility for school admissions. 

Currently all schools in North Somerset purchase admissions services from us. However, the tasks delegated to us from the schools will vary. Some schools may hold their own waiting list, and some are held by us.

Waiting lists

The following primary schools hold their own waiting list:

  • Corpus Christi Catholic
  • St Francis Catholic
  • St Georges Church
  • St John the Evangelist Church

If you would like to be added to a waiting list you must notify us. You are not added automatically.

Changes to your status

The bulk waiting list will be held until 31 December. After this date, waiting lists for each year group will be maintained as a changing schools during the school year waiting list and you must ask to be kept on it.

In line with the School Admissions Code, a child may only have one bulk offer of a place at a time. This means that when a child is offered a place from the bulk waiting list, it will result in any other offer of a place being automatically withdrawn.

If you have decided to keep the offered school place and no longer wish to stay on a waiting list, it is imperative that you contact us and ask to be taken off.

Your position on a waiting list will depend on which criteria your child meets and who else is on the waiting list. These details are laid out in the school's oversubscription criteria.

Priority will not be given on a ‘first come, first served’ basis, nor for how long someone has been waiting. Only the school’s oversubscription criteria, as set in its admission policy, will be used. 

Please see the relevant parents’ guide for a summary of the oversubscription criteria, or the school’s admissions policy for the full details.

Waiting list positions can go up and down as other applicants are added and removed from the waiting list. For example, if you are first on a waiting list, it does not guarantee that you will be first permanently. 

Other people may apply and ask to be added to the waiting list as well. If they are in a higher criterion than you, they will be placed first on the waiting list. This will mean everyone else will be moved down one position.