Offers for school places
All primary, infant and junior school offers go out on Thursday 16 April 2026.
How you’ll get your offer
You’ll get your offer:
- by email after 4pm on Thursday 16 April 2026 if you apply online
- by post if you applied by paper. It’ll be posted on Thursday 16 April 2026 so you will get it after this date
- from your own local council if you live outside of Medway, even if the offer is for a Medway school.
We cannot guarantee that your child will get a place at one of the schools named on your application.
Accepting or refusing a place
Once you get your offer you need to decide if you want to accept or refuse the school place. You need to complete the acceptance/refusal form and return it to the school you've been offered.
Download an acceptance/refusal form and information
Offers made on 16 April must be accepted or refused by 14 May 2026.
Offers made after 16 April must be accepted or refused within 10 school days of the offer being made.
Before accepting or refusing, remember:
- we advise you to accept the place offered even if you want to go on a waiting list or appeal, as there's no guarantee your appeal/waiting list request will be successful
- an accepted place can always be released later, but a refused place cannot always be offered back
- refusing a school place does not improve your chance on a waiting list or in an appeal.
If you’re unhappy with the offer, you can:
- ask us to add your child to the waiting list for the schools you named on your application and any other Medway school
- appeal for any of the schools you named on your application that have not offered your child a place.
How we decide what school a child is offered
The schools you apply for are not told your order of preference. The order is only known by you and Medway Council for the purpose of determining the highest preference we can offer. We'll try to offer your child a place at one of your highest preferred schools.
Applying for a school does not guarantee you a place. This will depend on how oversubscribed the school is and the priority of other applicants.
All school places are offered based on each school's oversubscription criteria. The schools you apply for will prioritise all their applications into a list ordered by the school’s oversubscription criteria.
We then allocate places from the lists, starting from the top, up to each school’s published admission number. We might be able to offer more than one school to some children but we are only allowed to offer one school for each child. So we will use your application preference order to work out which of the available schools we will offer you (the highest preference available). This process is repeated multiple times until we have allocated every child the highest preference we can.
At that point, there are usually some children who we have not been able to offer a preference to. In those cases, to ensure every child has an allocated school, we'll allocate the nearest school that has a vacancy at that stage.