Education Self-Service: School admissions

Apply for a secondary school place

Applying for a 2025 year 7 secondary school place is now available. The closing date for secondary school place applications is Monday 4 November 2024, and we'll let you know the outcome by Monday 3 March 2025.

Find out more about secondary school places

Applying for a 2025 junior (year 3) place will be available from 23 September 2024 for children born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019. 

Find out more about junior (year 3) places

Applying for a 2025 reception place will be available from 23 September 2024 for children born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021. 

Find out more about reception places

Applying for a 2025 nursery place will be available from 23 September 2024 for children born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022.

Find out more about nursery places

After submitting a school admissions application, if you’d like to make a change there will be a short period where you can unsubmit your application through account management.

If the option to unsubmit an application is not displayed, you will need to complete an online form to let us know about a change.

Find out how to make a change to an admissions application if the option to unsubmit an application is not displayed.

You do not need an Education Self-Service account if you would like to apply for your child to transfer from one school to another.

Find out more about transferring schools

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