Admissions

Bickleigh on Exe C of E Primary Academy Admissions

If you are interested in your child joining us, either in our main intake into Reception or at any other time, please do come along and visit us.   If you would like to make an appointment to visit, please contact Mrs Wendy Humphreys here at the school.

If we can make a place available to you then we will. If not, you would have the right to appeal to a panel that is independent of the school and we would place your child’s name on a waiting list for vacancies.

We have our own admissions policy because we are an Academy School and have responsibility for admissions decisions. Our policy is reviewed every year – we take part in the Council’s annual consultation in December and January and welcome the views of our local community.

If we have a vacancy then all children are welcome to join us. If we are oversubscribed, we still welcome all children but give priority to particular groups: children who are looked after by the local authority, children with an exceptional need to come to our school, children who live in our catchment, children with siblings already here. We only use these over subscription criteria when we are oversubscribed. For full details of our admission arrangements, please look at our admissions policies.

We take part in the co-ordinated admissions schemes of Devon County Council which help parents to make applications for admission to school. Parents can apply through Devon for in-year admissions and through the local authority where the child lives for the normal round of admissions.

Admissions policy for 2025-26: Annual Consultation

Along with all other schools and academies in Devon, we are consulting on an admission policy for 2025-26. The Local Authority is also consulting on its admission arrangements. You are invited to look at the proposals and have your say. Our proposed policy is below and you can see all policies at http://devon.cc/schoolpolicy . Further information is here: www.devon.gov.uk/admissionarrangements

The consultation runs until 12 January 2024. Policies will be determined on 31st January 2024 and published in the same places by 15 March 2024.

2023-24 Bickleigh-on-Exe determined admissions-policy

2024-25 Bickleigh-on-Exe determined admissions policy

2025-26 Bickleigh on Exe determined admissions policy

If you would like further information, please contact us in school on 01884 855357 or Devon’s Admissions Service on 0345 155 1019 or go to:

Admissions information
www.devon.gov.uk/admissions
Devon’s admissions policies
www.devon.gov.uk/admissionarrangements
Online applications in Devon
www.devon.gov.uk/admissionsonline
More on the appeals timetable
www.devon.gov.uk/admissionappeals