Admissions

Here you will find all the information you need to apply for a place at our school.

Admissions guidance

Lift Montgomery is a three form entry school. Montgomery Nursery has both full time and part time places. Children are admitted at the beginning of the school year in which they reach their fourth birthday. Parents requesting a place in Nursery should place their child’s name at the office on the school’s waiting list. Places are allocated by the school in line with Birmingham Local Authority’s criteria for admissions detailed below.

Admission into Reception is now handled by the Local Authority. When parents or carers apply for a place for a child they are allocated in accordance with Birmingham Local Authority’s criteria for admissions, and are offered to:

Looked after children (in public care)
Children who have particular special needs
Children who have brothers or sisters already in school and who will still be there when they start school themselves
Children who live nearest to the school by straight line measured distance from a set point

For further information on our admissions arrangements, please refer to the links below:

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Admissions 2025-2026

Admissions 2026-2027

If you would like your child to attend our school:

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1. Talk to your local authority’s Special Educational Needs (SEN) team. They will assess your child and provide you with an Educational Health Care Plan (ECHP); these have replaced ‘Statements’. The contact details for the SEN team will be on the education section of the council’s website.

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2. Contact the school to arrange an informal visit; you do not have to bring your child at this point. We will be happy to answer your questions as we show you around.

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3. If you like what you see, you can let your local authority know that you have been to look around and would like your child to be referred here. You will however then have to wait for your child’s Education Health and Care Plan which will tell you whether your local authority thinks a special school would provide the best education for your child. If this is so, they may agree to your child coming here and would then send us a referral letter and papers for us to consider.

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4. If your child is Nursery age we can accept them before they have an EHC plan. The SEN team would write a short report outlining your child’s difficulties and ask for an Assessment place. If the local authority thinks that our school is the best place for your child, they would send us a referral letter and papers for us to consider.

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5. We would then consider your child’s referral along with others we may have, in terms of age, educational needs and resource requirements matching them to the places we have available.

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6. If on paper it looks as if we can meet your child’s needs, we will invite you and your child in for a visit to the school. This visit is important. It gives us an opportunity to meet your child and find out more about them. It also gives us an opportunity to see whether as a school we can provide the things your child needs.

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7. If we have spaces and the resources we need, we will let the local authority know. If we don’t have spaces we will let them know too and ask if they would like us to put your child’s name on our waiting list until a space becomes available.

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8. Your local authority will formally let you know if we have a space for your child.

Nursery

We’re excited to share some great news! Starting in September 2025, Lift Montgomery will be opening a brand-new nursery class for 2-year-olds. If your child will be 2 years old by September 2025 and you’re interested in a nursery place, please look out for more information coming your way in the summer term.

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In-year admissions

In-year admissions are applications made outside the normal round of admissions. The school will coordinate its own in-year admissions and an application for in-year admission should be made directly to the school. On receipt of an in-year application, the school will notify the Local Authority of both the application and its outcome, to allow the Local Authority to keep up to date on the availability of school places within the authority.

Admissions appeals

Parents have a right to appeal the decision of the admissions authority, Lift Schools, to refuse their child a place at the school Lift Schools delegates the administration of appeals to the Local Authority. Parents who wish to appeal against the decision to refuse their child admission should visit www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions

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