Admission arrangements for Knaphill Lower School 2025/26 Academic Year

Please apply for your child’s Reception place via the Surrey County Council website. The closing date for September 2025/26 admissions is 15th January 2025. Our admissions criteria for September 2025 is detailed in the Admission Arrangements KLS 2025 – 2026.

Knaphill Lower School is a two form intake school (two classes of 30 children). Knaphill Lower School’s selection criteria is the standard for most Surrey Schools and is in the following order:

  1. Looked after children and previously looked after children
  2. Exceptional social/medical needs
  3. Children of Staff
  4. Sibling
  5. Any other applicant

OVER SUBSCRIPTION

If there is over subscription within any criteria, priority is given according to the distance from the pupil’s permanent home address to the school. Distance is measured by a straight line from the address point of the pupil’s house, as set by Ordnance Survey to the nearest school gate for pupils to use. You can find out how far you are from the school via Surrey County Council’s website (links below).

IN YEAR ADMISSIONS

As with Reception admissions, Surrey County Council co-ordinates requests for the transfer to a new School across the County. If there is a space available in the year group requested, you will, under normal circumstances, be offered the place. If there is no place available, your name will be added to our waiting list and we will contact you if a place becomes available.

To apply for an in year place, please go to the In Year Admissions section of the Surrey County Council website.

RECEPTION ADMISSIONS 2026 – TOURS

Choosing a primary school place can be difficult; one of the best ways to help make that decision is by visiting your local primary schools. We are always delighted to invite parents and carers to a tour of Knaphill Lower School where you will see the learning environment in action and meet members of the teaching team. Tours typically last for 30 minutes and dates for our 2026 reception intake will be running throughout October and November 2025 – dates will be published here in September 2025.

FOREST SCHOOL STAY AND PLAY SESSIONS – Dates will be published in September 2025

At Knaphill Lower School we understand how vital it is for children to feel confident and happy in their learning environments. Therefore, we will be inviting children (aged 3 & 4) to attend a Forest School stay and play session with their parents and carers – during November & December. Your children will have the opportunity to experience some time in the learning environment playing with some of the resources. Parents and Carers will have time to speak to some of the teaching team and ask any questions they may have.

SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

For further information on admissions, please use the links in the Links section

CONTACT DETAILS

For general information on Surrey admissions, please see the Surrey County Council website or contact their Schools Team on 0300 200 1004.

For specific enquiries about admissions, please call Admissions on 01483 473282, or email klsadmissions@kfos.co.uk

APPEALS

Current legislation only allows an Appeal Panel to uphold an appeal on one or both of the following grounds:

  • The child was wrongly refused a place in error as the admission rules were not followed properly or were contrary to mandatory provisions
  • The decision not to admit the child was unreasonable in a legal sense

If you live outside of the area that offers were made too, then appealing will not give you a place in the school. However, should you feel that we have not applied the correct process to your application and wish to appeal our decision, then please see the Surrey School Admission Appeals page for further details. Please note that we follow the Surrey School admission appeals timetable.

Documents

Links

General School Admissions

School Admissions Policies and Reports (includes allocation of school places in Woking)

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