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Important dates for secondary school applications
When you need to apply, when school offers are sent out and when children start school.
The deadline to apply for a school place is 11:59pm.
22 January 2025
The deadline to apply late for a school place with a good reason.
February 2025
Applications are looked at and school places are decided.
3 March 2025
National Offer Day. If you applied online or gave an email address, you'll get an email from school admissions to let you know the outcome of the application. If you applied by post and don't have an email address, a letter will be sent to you by first-class post.
15 March 2025
The deadline to accept or refuse the school place offered. If you don't reply the offer could be removed.
28 March 2025
Deadline to make an appeal if your child wasn't offered a place at one of the schools you listed as the first, second or third preference.
April to August 2025
Appeals are discussed and decided at meetings called appeal hearings. Children in the reallocation pool are offered school places as they become available.