How to Apply
September 2025/26 Admissions
To accept or decline your offer for September 2025 please click here.
Applications are invited for Admission into Year 7 at the Academy in September each year, through Medway Council. Please note we no longer hold the Fair Banding Test.
As a parent, one of the most important decisions you will make will be which secondary school your child will attend. Your child’s secondary education will provide the foundation for their future as adults. They will acquire the skills and knowledge and qualifications they will need to progress onto further education and fulfilling, rewarding careers.
The Victory Academy is a mixed Comprehensive School for 11-19 year old students of all ability ranges, where everyone works and learns within its caring and supportive values.
In Year Casual Admissions
All in year admissions enquiries should be addressed to the Academy. If you wish to apply for a place within the Academy, an application form is available via the downloads below, or from the main reception of the Academy. These forms once completed can either be sent via Royal Mail, scanned and sent electronically to admissions@thevictoryacademy.org.uk or delivered in person to the main reception, which is manned from 8am to 4.30pm during term time, from 8am to 4pm during school holidays.
TSAT In Year Admission Application Form
In Year Admissions - Waiting List Request
Admission Enquiries
- Please note that if you are waiting on an outcome from a school admission enquiry, we have 15 school days to process these and you will receive a call in due course. Any enquiries submitted in term 6 will have therefore been suspended over the summer break.
- If you would like to find out which Medway schools have places, please contact Medway Council by email at admissions@medway.gov.uk or on 01634 331 110.
- All Year 7 admissions enquiries are managed via Medway Council currently. The Local Authority will be handling Year 7 enquiries up to 31 December. Please contact them by email at admissions@medway.gov.uk or on 01634 331 110. From 2 January, Year 7 enquiries will be managed by us as a school.
- Please contact admissions@thevictoryacademy.org.uk for all other enquiries.
Appeals
If your child is due to start secondary school in September 2025, you can appeal if you are refused a place at one of your preferred schools on National Offer Day (Monday 3 March 2025).
You needed to submit your appeal before Monday 31 March 2025 for it to be considered by Monday 23 June 2025. Any appeals received after this time will be heard within 40 school days from the deadline, or where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.
For late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged where reasonably possible in line with updated guidance from the Department for Education.
Appeals Form 2024
Appeals FAQs
Secondary Admissions Generic Defence 2025
Secondary Admissions Generic Defence 2024
School Admissions Scheme
