Admissions
Applications for Year 7 September 2025
Offers for Year 7 September 2025 entry have now been sent out (Monday 3rd March 2025).
If your child has been offered a place at Altrincham College and you wish to accept this place, please confirm your acceptance by replying as per your Local Authority’s instructions. Congratulations!
If you have not been successful in securing a place for your child at Altrincham College you may choose to:
1. Request to go on the waiting list
Requests to go onto the Altrincham College waiting list must be made directly to Trafford School Admissions not directly to the school.
Please put your request in writing to Trafford School Admissions Department (either via email to school.admissions@trafford.gov.uk or on paper to School Admissions, Waterside House, Waterside, Sale, M33 7ZF), giving your child’s name, date of birth and home address and the name of the desired school.
The waiting list is held in strict accordance with Altrincham College’s over-subscription criteria and not on a first come, first-served basis. This waiting list will be held in accordance with our Admissions Policy.
2. You may also choose to appeal against the decision not to allocate your child a place.
If you choose to appeal against the decision, you must lodge your intention to do so directly to Mr D Wakefield at Altrincham College.
You can do this via email: admissions@altrinchamcollege.com or if you do not have email access, by telephone on 0161 980 7173.
When lodging your intention to appeal, please ensure you provide the following details:
- Child's name
- Child's date of birth
- Child's current school
- Parent's name
- Postal address and contact number
Appeal hearings for a place in Year 7 for September 2025 will take place during May.
You must lodge your intention to appeal before 17th March 2025 in order to be heard during the week beginning 12th May 2025. Any appeals lodged after 17th March 2025 will be heard at a later date.
Timetable of events for Admission to Year 7 September 2025
|
Date |
Details |
|
3rd March |
Offers of a place go out |
|
17th March |
Deadline for parents to have responded to offer via Local Authority |
|
17th March |
Deadline to have lodged intention to appeal with Altrincham College in order to be heard during week beginning 12th May 2025. |
|
Week beginning 12th May |
Individual appeal hearings during which each parent/carer presents their case to the independent panel |
|
Start of July |
Appeal hearings for anyone who lodged an appeal after 17th March but before Friday 6th June 2025. Appeals lodged after 6th June will be heard within 30 school days. |
