Admissions
If your child is in Year 6, you will be starting to plan for their move to Secondary School. Please find all of the key information you need at this important transition.
Summary of Admission Procedures
Enquiries regarding application for Main Round admission to Year 7 for September 2026 should be made directly to the County Admissions Team in the first instance. Their email is: admissions.team@hants.gov.uk.
The Closing Date for Admission Application for new Year 7’s in September 2026 is on 31st October 2025.
Contact details can be found at https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/admissions.
How parents and carers should apply
- Year 7 admissions round https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/admissions/applicationprocess/year7
- Applying for a school place in-year https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/admissions/applicationprocess/inyear
To find out if you are in our catchment area please click here.
Bay House School Catchment Area Map (PDF)
An address in the catchment area does not guarantee your child a place and so it is advisable to also make contact with some of the other schools in Gosport.
If you are applying for a place for your child between Years 7 and 11, you can apply online by clicking here.
For any general admissions enquiries regarding your application, please phone the County admissions directly on 0300 555 1377 or contact them via admissions.team@hants.gov.uk
Our current admissions policy can be found on our policies page here.
Ethos
We have high expectations of all of our learners and work hard to provide the best experience for learners and parents/carers. Please read the following document outlining our expectations of ourselves, our learners and our parents/carers.
Expectations for admission to King’s Academy Bay House
Admissions Appeals
If your child has been refused admission to a school you have the right to appeal to an independent appeal panel. For more information, please click the link below:
Admission Timetable for Year 7 in September 2025
| Notification date for on-time applicants | Monday 2nd March 2026 |
| Deadline date for parents/ carers wishing to lodge an appeal (returning completed appeal papers to the school) |
Monday 31st March 2025 |
| Year 7 appeal hearings to be held | W/B 26th May 2025 |
| Decision letters to be sent | Within 5 school days of hearing |
Please note:
(i) Appeals lodged after March 31st will be heard on the above date if possible, or within 40 calendar days (excluding school holidays) of the appeal being lodged. Appeals lodged after the beginning of June will not be heard until the autumn term.
(ii) Following the lodging of an appeal, additional evidence papers may be submitted to the Bay House Admissions Officer – deadline dates for this will be advised during the appeal process. Evidence submitted after the date advised may not be considered in your case.
If you have any questions about the appeals process, please do not hesitate to contact the Bay House Admissions Team on 02392 587931, ext 3276 or via email: admissions@kgabayhouse.uk
In-year Admissions
There are occasions where parents/carers seek to move their child to a different secondary school at the end of or during an academic year. This is referred to as an ‘In-Year admission’. Whilst there may at times be good reasons for doing so, in many cases such requests for in-year admission to another school arise from issues which may well be straightforward for the home school to resolve.
In addition, the capacity of the receiving school to effectively meet the needs of a significant number of children joining them mid-way through their secondary education, or mid-way through a year, may well prove challenging and a move may not be in the child’s best interests. Where a child has complex needs which are well-understood by the home school, a move is potentially disruptive and unsettling. If a child moves to a school further away, this may have an adverse impact on attendance and punctuality. Moving during secondary education might affect a child more acutely at Key Stage 4, where not all schools offer the same options subjects, and where a move might adversely affect a child’s KS4 outcomes.
The district of Fareham and Gosport has 9 secondary schools, all with an inclusive ethos and commitment to meeting the needs of all young people. These secondary schools agree and endorse an approach which ensures that home schools seek to resolve issues, so that the young person remains at their original school. The schools recognise the right of parents to make in-year applications to other schools, and the receiving school will not lead these conversations.
If a parent is considering an in-year move, they should contact admissions@kgabayhouse.uk as a first step.
In-year Admissions for children with an EHCP
Fareham and Gosport secondary schools agree and endorse an approach which ensures that proper procedure regarding requests for in-year transfers for children with EHCPs is consistently adhered to and that, as far as possible, home schools seek to resolve issues, so that the young person remains at their original school.
Whilst there will at times be very good reasons for seeking a change of Secondary school for a child with an EHCP, requests for in-year transfers can arise from issues in the home school which may be easy to resolve. In addition, the capacity of a receiving school to effectively meet the complex needs of a large number of children with EHCPs joining them mid-way through their secondary education, or mid-way through a year, can be very challenging in terms of resources and consequently not in the child’s best interests.
Moving between schools during a young person’s secondary education is often extremely disruptive for them, both socially and academically, and can have a detrimental impact on their chances of success, especially where the young person has complex needs which need to be met.
Parents seeking in-year changes of placement for children with an EHCP should not approach other schools directly. Please contact the SENCO in your child’s current school to make such a request through the Annual Review process.
Admissions Policies
Transport to School
Please click here for the link to Hampshire County Council’s website, which provides information for parents who wish to apply for transport to school. Applications should be submitted to the Passenger Transport Group as soon as possible. This is to allow time for the applications to be processed by the beginning of the autumn term. Applications received after the end of June may be subject to delay. Parents will normally be notified of transport arrangements during the summer holidays.