All applications must go through the local authority admissions team. When your child is due to transfer from a primary to secondary school, you will have to apply for a school place. You can apply for places at schools in Hull and outside Hull if you would like to. Further details regarding out admissions arrangements can be provided by the local authority admissions team.

Admissions Team Contact Details:

Admissions Team
Children and Young People’s Services
Hull City Council
Kingston House
Bond Street
Hull
HU1 3ER

Tel: 01482 300 300

Applications

Applications to schools are made through the local authority where you live, even if the school is in another local authority’s area. All local authorities have both on-line and paper application forms. Please visit your local authority’s website for more specific information on how to apply.

Malet Lambert is in the Hull City Council local authority. Hull City Council’s admissions information can be found on their website.

An admission number will be published showing the maximum number of pupils that the school will admit in the Autumn Term. Parents are given the opportunity to express three preferences for a secondary school. Published criteria are used to decide which children should be offered the available places.

In secondary schools an equal preference system operates, whereby the three parental preferences are given equal status. Each preference will be considered equally against the admissions criteria.

The allocation of school places is based on parental preference following the High Court judgment against Rotherham LA. Parents/carers are required to submit applications under the arrangements set out in the co-ordinated admissions scheme.

Applications for pupils having statements of special educational needs/educational health and care plans (EHCP) will be dealt with in accordance with the Code of Practice on Special Educational Needs and disabilities. Where a school is named in part 4 of a child’s statement or recorded in the Educational Health and Care Plan, following consultation with the Head and Governors, the governing bodies are required to admit the pupil. After the allocation of statemented/EHCP pupils, where the number of applications is greater than the remaining places the following criteria will be applied in the order set out below.

The arrangements for the admission criteria for Malet Lambert for 2023-24

  • Children in public care at the time when preferences are expressed and who are still in public care at the time of their admission to school, and those who have been previously looked after including children who were previously looked after outside England but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order
  • Admission authorities may give priority in their oversubscription criteria to children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances:
    • where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or
    • the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
  • Being a resident in the catchment area of the school.
  • Those applicants who on the date of admission will have a sibling on the roll of Malet Lambert at the time of admission. Siblings (brothers or sisters) are considered to be those children who live at the same address and either:
    • have one or both natural parents in common
    • are related by a parent’s marriage
    • are adopted or are fostered
    • their parents are married/co-habiting and children live together in the same household
    • are children of the same household
  • Geographical, with priority given to those living nearest to the school.

Notes

  • Residence is defined as the normal family address where the child resides. The qualification date is the closing date for applications under the co-ordinated admissions scheme. (Where families change normal address after the closing date but before the allocation process has finished this can be considered under the review procedure). Where parents live at separate addresses and have joint custody, the address used will be the one where the child spends the main part of the school week (i.e. Sunday night to Thursday night inclusive). Childcare arrangements involving relative’s addresses do not qualify as normal family addresses for this purpose unless there is a court Residence Order in place.
  • Brothers and sisters include children with the same natural parents living at the same address, children with the same natural parents living at different addresses (e.g. due to separation of natural parents), half brothers/sisters living at the same address, step brothers/sisters living at the same address – children living as part of the same family unit with their parents/carers at the same address
  • The measurement of distance is the shortest available safe route for pedestrians along footpaths, using footpaths alongside roads marked on the current street map of the City. (The only exception to this is the maintained footpath across East Park from Hawkesbury Street to James Reckitt Avenue for access to Malet Lambert School. Front entrance of home property (residence) to main entrance of school site is used. The Authority will use Routefinder, a computer mapping system, to make measurements.
  • A looked after child is a child who is in the care of a local authority or is provided with accommodation by that authority (see section 22 of the Children Act 1989). Any application submitted for a child who is looked after by a local authority should be supported by the authority’s Children’s Services Department. An ‘adopted child’ is a child adopted under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or Adoption Act 1976. A ‘child arrangements order’ is an order made under the terms of the Children and Families Act 2014.

Types of Admission

There are two different types of admissions – those to start school at the ‘normal’ time for the start of the Year 7, and those for places in other year groups or at any other time – these are called ‘in-year’ applications for school places.  In-year applications are made for example when a child is already attending one school and the parent/carers wish to move their child from one school to another, and when a family moves to a different area and needs a new school place for their child(ren).

Whilst the admission authority for our school is the academy, admissions applications are co-ordinated by the Local Authority, Hull City Council.

If you would like to visit the school when considering making an application, please call 01482 374211 to arrange a visit.

How do I apply for a ‘normal’ school place for my child?

Applications to start our school for the first time, for the start of Year 7 should be made direct to the Local Authority in which you live by the deadline for applications.  Late applications will be considered after those submitted by the deadline, often when there are no places available so it is important that you apply on-time.  If you live within the Hull City Council area, then you can find more information about ‘normal’ admissions processes, deadlines, details of the appeal process and other information via www.hull.gov.uk/education-and-schools/schools/secondary-school-applications

There is no supplementary information form when applying for a place at our school.

How do I apply for an ‘in-year’ school place for my child?

Although we are an academy the admissions authority for the school is the academy trust/governing body. We have formally requested that applications for school places are made through the local authority’s co-ordinated admissions scheme for in-year applications.  Applications to start our school in-year should be made direct to the Local Authority no earlier than one term before the place is required, and it is recommended that you apply no later than a period of twenty school days, that is four weeks in term time, before you wish for the place to be available for your child.  Applications are considered in the order that they have been received, for example if there is one space available in a year group, the parent/carer who applied for their place first will likely be allocated the place for their child.  Proof of residence may be required before places can be allocated, and the school fully adheres to the Hull LA Fair Access Protocol.  Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application as soon as is possible, though this is commonly ten school days after an application has been received, but may be later in certain circumstances.

If you live in the Hull area, then you can find more information about ‘in-year’ admissions processes, and details of the co-ordinated admissions scheme at www.hull.gov.uk/education-and-schools/schools/secondary-school-applications where you can also find the application process with details of how to appeal for a school place where you have been refused. 

There is no supplementary information form when applying for a place at our school.

Who makes decisions on school admissions applications?

As we are an academy, the admissions authority for the school is the academy trust.  It is the admission authority, and not the Local Authority who determines whether there is an available place based upon the capacity of the class/year group and the number of pupils already on roll.

Who should I contact with queries on school admissions?

You can contact the Hull CC Admission Team.  All of their details are accessible via at www.hull.gov.uk/education-and-schools/schools/secondary-school-applications

How are appeals processed?

Appeals for ‘in-year’ school admission requests are normally held within 30 school days of the date your appeal is received.  You will be notified of the date of your appeal no later than ten school days before the appeal is due to take place.

Appeals for entry into Reception or Year 7 to start primary or secondary school for the first time – what are called ‘normal’ admission requests – are usually held in the summer term after parents / carers have been notified of the refusal of a school place, commonly in June and July.

Starting school in September 2025

For applications to start a secondary school for the first time in September 2025, appeal forms should be submitted by the parent / carers by ​18 April 2025 and appeals are planned to be held between ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​May and June 2025.

Admission Arrangements for the 2024-25 academic year

The trust board of The Education Alliance Multi Academy Trust determined the admission arrangements for the 2024-25 school year on 9 February 2023.  At this meeting the trust board formally approved the following documents and approved the following admission numbers for the following schools:

  • Driffield School and Sixth Form, 250 places
  • Howden Junior School, 60 places
  • Hunsley Primary, 30 places
  • Malet Lambert School, 350 places
  • North Cave Primary School, 20 places
  • South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College 350 places
  • The Snaith School, 150 places

How can I object to these arrangements? – if you wish to object to these determined admission arrangements, you should do so to the Schools Adjudicator by 15 May 2023.  Information about how to lodge an objection is available here at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/schools-adjudicator-make-an-objection-appeal-or-referral or you can contact the Office of the Schools Adjudicator by email at osa.team@schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk

Admission Arrangements for the 2025-26 academic year

See our Admissions Policy.

These admission arrangements were determined by the Trust Board in February 2024. Objections to these determined admission arrangements should be sent to the Schools Adjudicator by 15 May 2024. Information about how to lodge an objection is available here:https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-admissions-arrangements

You can contact the Office of the Schools Adjudicator by email at osa.team@schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk

Admission Arrangements – 2026-27 Annual Consultation

We are currently consulting on our 2026-27 admission arrangements, details on how to make a response can be found on the Consultation Stakeholder Letter and all associated documentation can be viewed on The Education Alliance Website.