School appeals

Appeals when an infant class already has 30 pupils

  • View Department for Education guidance on infant class size appeals (When an infant class already has 30 pupils)
  • The law states that there must be no more than 30 pupils in an infant class (reception, year one and year two).
  • An appeals panel can only allow more children in an infant class if they decide either:
  • that the admission arrangements did not comply with admissions law and the child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had complied
  • that the admission arrangements were not correctly and impartially applied and the child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had been correctly and impartially applied
  • that the decision to refuse admission was not one which a reasonable admission authority would have made in the circumstances of the case
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