Admissions

In year admissions for years 7 to 11 are co-ordinated by the school and your completed application form should be sent to Anne- Marie Hamlet, Admissions Officer, at the school address. 

Please ensure ALL sections are completed and once this has been received you will be contacted by our admissions officer to discuss your application.

If we are able to offer a place within our school you will be invited in for a meeting and a tour of the school.

2024-25 In Year Application Form

If more applications are received than there are places available then applications will be ranked by the governing body in accordance with our oversubscription criteria (Select the document below).

September 2024 Admissions Criteria

September 2024 Supplementary Information Form

Looked After Children

In accordance with Surrey's protocol for applications from children in care, all in-year applications for Surrey schools for children in care should be completed by the child's social worker and returned directly to Surrey Admissions.

Right of Appeal

If the applicant does not receive the offer of a place at the School there is a right of appeal to the Independent Appeal Committee details of which can be obtained from the School or the Surrey County Council Appeals Service - School admission appeals - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

Waiting Lists

Should a place become available whilst your child’s name is on an In-Year waiting list, your application will be ranked using our over-subscription criteria within our Admissions Criteria, alongside any other applicants on the waiting list at that time.   Should your application be the highest ranking against our criteria, an offer of a place will be made to you in writing.

Waiting lists will be dissolved on 31st August 2025 and you would need to re-apply for a place in the next academic year.

If you have applied for and been refused a place at this school you have the right to appeal under the School Standards & Framework Act 1998.

Admissions Appeals for our school are coordinated by Surrey School Appeals Services who can be contacted by calling the Surrey Contact Centre on 0300 200 1004.  To submit your appeal online please go to www.surreycc.gov.uk/schoolappeals

September 2025 Primary to Secondary Transition School admission appeals timetable

Appeals for September 2025 resulting from year of entry or transfer applications:

Description	Date
Secondary Offer Date	3rd March 2025
Secondary Appeals To Be Lodged By	31st March 2025
Secondary Appeals Heard By	18th June 2025 (40 School days)

 NB: Appeals will not start being heard until after the relevant closing date has passed.

Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, whichever is the later date.

Appellants will be sent notification of their appeal hearing at least 10 clear school days in advance of the hearing.  Appellants will be sent a copy of the school's case 7 clear working days in advance of the hearing.

Appellants must ensure that any further evidence not included with their initial appeal, is received by 5pm on the day notified in the letter with details of the hearing.  Any additional evidence or information received after this date might not be considered at the appeal hearing.

In year or immediate entry appeals

Appeals resulting from in year admission applications will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.

Appellants will be sent notification of their appeal hearing at least 10 clear school days in advance of the hearing.

Appellants will be sent a copy of the school's case 7 clear working days in advance of the hearing.

If an appellant wishes to submit further evidence which was not included with their initial appeal, they must make sure that it is received no later than 5pm on the day preceding three clear working days prior to the appeal hearing date.

Please find below the determined admission criteria to be applied to applicants applying for a place at our school during the September 2026 admission round.    Our published admission number is 210.

Admissions for September 2026 primary to secondary transfer are managed by Surrey County Council and not by the school.

Full details are available on their website www.surreycc.gov.uk under Schools and Learning  - Telephone: 0300 200 1004

KEY DATES

• 31st October 2025 - Closing date for secondary school applications
• 31st December 2025 - Closing date for Supplementary Information Forms to be returned to Sunbury Manor School
• 3rd March 2026- Secondary school place offers issued
• By 17th March 2026 - Parents must confirm or refuse secondary school place offer
• After 17th March 2026 - Surrey School Admissions will process late applications received and issue letter of their outcome during the Summer term 
• 31st March 2026 - All appeals to be lodged before this date
• 18th June 2024 - All appeals to be heard by this date

In the event that the school is oversubscribed the following criteria will be applied.

September 2026 Admissions Criteria

If your application is to be applied under the following criteria please also complete our Supplementary Information Form (SIF) and return it directly to the school:

Criteria 4 - Children Of Staff

Criteria 5 - Sibling (Past)

September 2026 Supplementary Information Form

Late Applications

Applications received after the Surrey’s published closing date will be deemed as late applications and will only be considered after all those applications received by the published closing date.

Right of Appeal

If the applicant does not receive the offer of a place at the School there is a right of appeal to the Independent Appeal Committee details of which can be obtained from the School or the Surrey County Council Appeals Service - School admission appeals - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

The document below sets out Surrey’s Fair Access Protocol, which will ensure that access to education is secured quickly for Surrey children who have no school place and that all schools in Surrey admit children with challenging behavior, whether or not the school is oversubscribed.

Fair Access Protocol 2025-26