Year 7 September 2025 deadline
Reminder: To submit an application to The Discovery Academy for September 2025 please visit Stoke City Council School…
Application forms can be completed on-line at the Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority website www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions and must be submitted no later than the 31st October in the year prior to your child starting at secondary school. Applications cannot be made directly to the academy. E-mails from the Local Authority should be received by parents/carers on the 1st March the following year confirming which school your child has been allocated.
The academy follows Stoke-on-Trent City Council admission arrangements. Details of these are below:
In year admissions, please see the Admissions Policy 2022-2023.pdf
Year 6 transferring in September 2023, please see the Admissions Policy 2023-2024.pdf
Year 6 transferring in September 2024, please see the Admissions Policy 2024-2025.pdf
You can contact the Admissions Team on admissions@stoke.gov.uk or 01782 234598 should you require any further advice or assistance.
If you pay your Council Tax to Newcastle Borough Council, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council or Stafford Borough Council, please apply via www.staffordshire.gov.uk
Parents/carers should visit The Discovery Academy in person and request an application form directly from the Admissions Team. Should a place be offered to your child, the transfer process should take no more than 6 days. If there is no space available in the relevant year group then you will be have the opportunity to go onto a waiting list.
In year transferring in September 2022, please see the Admissions Policy 2022-2023.pdf
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, The Discovery Academy will first accept all students with a statement of Special Educational Needs where The Discovery Academy is named on the statement. After the admission of students with statements of Special Educational Needs, the criteria below will be applied for the remaining places, for this age group, in the order in which they are set out:
Application forms can be completed on-line at the Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority website www.stoke.gov.uk/admissions and must be submitted no later than the 31st October in the year prior to your child starting at secondary school. Applications cannot be made directly to the academy. E-mails from the Local Authority should be received by parents/carers on the 1st March the following year confirming which school your child has been allocated.
The academy follows Stoke-on-Trent City Council admission arrangements. Details of these are below:
In year admissions, please see the Admissions Policy 2022-2023.pdf
Year 6 transferring in September 2023, please see the Admissions Policy 2023-2024.pdf
Year 6 transferring in September 2024, please see the Admissions Policy 2024-2025.pdf
You can contact the Admissions Team on admissions@stoke.gov.uk or 01782 234598 should you require any further advice or assistance.
If you pay your Council Tax to Newcastle Borough Council, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council or Stafford Borough Council, please apply via www.staffordshire.gov.uk
Parents/carers should visit The Discovery Academy in person and request an application form directly from the Admissions Team. Should a place be offered to your child, the transfer process should take no more than 6 days. If there is no space available in the relevant year group then you will be have the opportunity to go onto a waiting list.
In year transferring in September 2022, please see the Admissions Policy 2022-2023.pdf
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, The Discovery Academy will first accept all students with a statement of Special Educational Needs where The Discovery Academy is named on the statement. After the admission of students with statements of Special Educational Needs, the criteria below will be applied for the remaining places, for this age group, in the order in which they are set out:
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