There are only a few days left for parents and carers to apply for school places for their ten and eleven year olds.
If you have a child due to start secondary school in September 2022 the closing date for school applications is October 31.
Letters from local councils should have been received by all guardians of year six pupils when they started the school year back in September, letting them know of the full application process.
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Parents can apply for up to three schools of their choice and can apply online via their local council website or send an application by post.
You can go to this link and search your postcode to get to your local council website.
Postal applications should be sent back using signed for, or special delivery services.
The Gov website reads: "All schools have admission criteria to decide which children get places. The school or local council usually set these."
Priority may be given to children who:
- who live close to the school
- who have a brother or sister at the school already
- from a particular religion (for faith schools)
- who pass an entrance exam (for selective schools, for example grammar schools)
- who went to a particular primary school (a ‘feeder school’)
- who are eligible for the pupil premium or the service pupil premium
- whose parent has worked at the school for 2 years or more
Parents should expect to hear back about their choices on March 3, 2022.
On this day, parents who completed online applications will receive offers by email, while those sent by post will receive their offer by letter.
If your child does not get offered a place in the school that you have chosen then you have the right to appeal.
Parents of younger children who are due to start primary school have a bit longer to apply as the primary school admissions deadline is not until January 15 2022.
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