Higham Lane North Academy welcomes applications from parents of all children and our inclusive admissions process will at all times be open, transparent and fair, and will meet the requirements of the National School Admissions Code, the Appeals Code and admissions legislation.

Higham Lane North Academy plans to open with a published admission number (PAN) of 150 with five forms of entry into Year 7 in September 2025. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 900-pupil school with 180 pupils in each year group from Year 7 to Year 11.

How to apply for a Year 7 place for September 2025

Higham Lane North Academy will run its own admissions arrangements for the 2025/26 school year. However, Warwickshire County Council will handle the admissions process on behalf of Higham Lane North Academy and parents should apply through the coordinated scheme. Applicants living outside of Warwickshire should apply through their local authority’s admissions process. You can apply for up to six schools and are strongly advised to name at least three schools on your application. You will receive an offer for a school place directly from your local authority.

Warwickshire residents: Apply through Warwickshire County Council/Warwickshire Parent Portal
Leicestershire residents: Apply through Leicestershire County Council/Leicestershire Parent Portal using the 'advanced search' in the Parent Portal for out-of-county schools.

The application process for secondary school places (Year 7) opens from 1st September 2024 and the deadline to apply for a secondary school place is 31st October 2024 (31st December 2024 if your address changes after 31st October). 

Name Higham Lane North Academy as your first preference with confidence

Parents and carers can be reassured that, when the local authority makes admissions offers on National Offer Day (3rd March 2025), in the highly unlikely event that the school's Funding Agreement is not signed by that date, these offers will be conditional and will be made in conjunction with a firm offer for another open school. However, we are confident following discussions with the Department for Education that the Funding Agreement will be signed by the EHCP deadline of 15th February, well ahead of National Offer Day. 

As is often the case with new free schools, we predict that applicants naming Higham Lane North Academy as their first preference of secondary school for our opening year are likely to have a higher chance of receiving an offer than in future years. This is because more families will be aware of this new choice of school as it becomes an established centre of educational excellence, more houses will be constructed in the new developments within the priority area (catchment area), and more priority places for siblings and children of staff places will be allocated in line with the oversubscription criteria as the school grows. 

View our Draft Admissions Policy for 2025/26
Includes details of the oversubscription criteria, including the school’s priority area (catchment area).