Admissions for Reception - September 2025 

Applications for places at Coombe Hill Infants school must be made to the Kingston Borough Admissions service, via the eAdmissions website, the year before your child starts school.   Applications for entry into Reception in September 2025 opened on 1 September 2025.  Children born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 are due to start Reception at primary school in September 2025.

We accept children into Reception in the September following their 4th birthday.  We do not have a nursery at Coombe Hill.

The national closing date for on-time applications to be considered in the first round of allocations for Reception 2025 entry was Wednesday 15 January 2025.    National Offer day is Wednesday 16 April 2025.   Information on the coordination of applications for the normal admissions round can be found on Kingston Council’s website https://www.kingston.gov.uk/schools-education/school-admissions-arrangements. 

Applications outside of the normal admissions round will processed in line with the in-year arrangements.

The Admission arrangements for September 2025 can be found here:

Admission Arrangements for September 2025 entry

 

Please visit the following links below for further information:

https://kr.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/community-information/information-and-advice/school-admissions/starting-school-or-moving-up-to-junior-school-in-september

The Kingston Primary schools admissions brochure for September 2025 entry can be found here:

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School tours for families due to start Reception in September 2026

We will offer a series of school tours in November 2025 to parents and carers with a child due to join Reception in September 2026.   The dates of these tours will be announced later this year in September/October 2025.   All of our tours start at 9.15am and last for approximately one hour.

Both parents/carers will be welcome to join these tours, and you may bring babies and toddlers with you if you cannot find alternative childcare.  Please note there is no parking on site, please use the surrounding streets if you are driving to school.

General school tours

We are unable to conduct any other tours of the school during the year unless your child receives an offer of a place with us and you have not had the opportunity to see the school previously.  If this is the case please email contact our Admissions Officer, Alison Reid, at admin@chi.rbksch.org or call 020 8942 9481.

You will find lots of detailed information about our school on our website and via the virtual tour and FAQs below here. 

Please contact admin@chi.rbksch.org if you have any further questions.

 

Mid-year Admissions into Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

If you are interested in your child joining our school (into Reception, Year 1 or Year 2), outside the point of the main Reception Admissions intake in September, please contact Kingston Borough Admissions service in order to apply, full details given in links below:

https://kr.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/community-information/information-and-advice/school-admissions/changing-schools-in-year

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Please note that there is usually a waitlist for all of our year groups.  When you have registered your child for a place at our school they will be added to our waitlist and you can then call us to see what position they hold.  Please call Alison Reid, our Admissions Officer, on 020 8942 9481 to check this.

We do not have a nursery or pre-school setting at Coombe Hill.

How places have been allocated in Reception over the past 4 years 

Please find to follow information about how places in Reception have been allocated to our school over the past 4 years.  Also attached is a link to information giving the allocation of all Kingston community primary school places for the past 3 years.

https://www.kingston.gov.uk/downloads/download/97/allocation-of-kingston-community-primary-school-places-for-the-last-3-years

Year	Intake	SEN *	Criterion (i) Looked after child (including previously looked after children)	Criterion (ii) Having a brother or sister in the school or the paired school	Criterion (iii) Exceptional family, social or medical need	Criterion (iv) Children of staff	Criterion (v) Distance of home address to school	Distance of the last child offered a place under criterion (v) at offer date	Furthest distance offered from the waiting list at the end of August	Appeals heard (number successful)
2021	90	-	-	41	-	1	48	1.255km	1.313km	1 (0)
2022	90	-	-	37	-	-	53	1.160km	1.191km	1 (0)
2023	90	-	-	41	1	-	48	1.279km	1.569km	0
2024	90	1	-	30	-	-	59	1.441km	1.685km	0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*place reserved for a child with an education, health and care plan.

If you have any questions about your child's admission to Coombe Hill Infants school please call our office on 020 8942 9481 and speak to our Admissions Officer - Alison Reid.

If you would like to find out about Coombe Hill Infants' admission arrangements, please click here to see the Kingston Council website.