Admissions
If your child is due to start Primary school in September 2025, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Wednesday, 16 April 2025). You needed to submit your appeal before Tuesday, 20th May 2025 for it to be considered by Friday, 18th July 2025. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.
For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.
In Year Admissions
If your child is already of school age and you are looking for a place at our school please contact the School Office.
An In Year Application Form is required to process your application, these can be downloaded below:
Click here for an In Year Application Form
For any Admissions enquiries please contact the school office:
Tel: 01474 833225
Email: office@bean.kent.sch.uk
Please read the information given below which gives details of our admission arrangements for the school.
"The 1980 Education Act provides that an Authority shall comply with a parent's preference for a school, unless compliance with that preference is prejudicial to the provision of efficient education, or the efficient use of resources".
What this means is that parents can state a preference for a particular school and pupils will be admitted in accordance with parental preference whenever possible. Where a school is over subscribed and standard numbers would be exceeded by admitting all those children whose parents have expressed a preference for a particular school, then the Admissions Authority will assess applications using the following order of priorities:-
- Children in Local Authority Care
- Current Family Association (a brother or sister in the school at the time of entry, where the family continues to live at the same address as when the sibling was admitted or has moved to a new property within 2 miles of the school)
- Health, Social and Special Access Reasons of children and parents
- Nearness of Children’s Homes to school. We use the distance between the child's permanent home address and the school, measured in a straight line using the National Land and Property Gazatteer (NLPG) address point data. Distances are measured from a point defined as within the child's home to a point defined as within the school as specified by NLPG. The same address point on the school site is used for everybody
The school's Published Admission Number (PAN) is: 30.