Reception Appeals
You have the right of appeal to an independent appeal panel against the decision not to offer your child a place at William Hulme’s Grammar School. If you choose to exercise this right, you must complete an appeal form which can be downloaded from the school website or obtained from the school. Completed forms should be sent or handed in personally, to be received by the Clerk to the Appeals Panel c/o the school no later than 4.00pm on Friday 15 May 2026.
Reception appeals will be heard via an online platform towards the end of June 2026.
Appeals received after the above date will not be heard in June, unless the Clerk to the Appeals Panel considers that there is an exceptional and unavoidable reason why the appeal is late, and the appeal is received in time for all parties to give proper consideration to all documents. Any other late appeals will be heard later in the year.
We have a duty to make parents aware that appeals for Reception are classed as Infant Class Size appeals.
Section 1 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 limits the size of an infant class to 30 pupils with a single school teacher. Where an infant class will have admitted 30 pupils, panels can only uphold appeals in very limited circumstances which are set out in the School Admissions Appeals Code (paragraph 2.15).
There have been no successful Infant Class Size appeals for William Hulme’s Grammar School Reception class in recent years.