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Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
If you live in England contact your local council to find: state-funded…
All schools have admission criteria to decide which children get places.…
Most children start reception full-time in September after their fourth…
Follow your local council’s application process to: apply for a primary…
If your child does not have a place, contact your local council for…
You’ll be sent a letter with the decision about your child’s school. If…
You can complain about the way the appeal was carried out, but you can not…
Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council
Apply for a state primary school place through your local council
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
How to object to admission arrangements and how admission authorities can apply for an in-year variation or appeal against a direction to admit a child.
Information about academy admissions and the role of the Department for Education (DfE).
Applying for a school place, home schooling and travel costs
Statutory guidance that schools must follow when carrying out duties relating to school admissions.
How local authorities should collect and submit admission appeals data from all community and voluntary-controlled schools in their area.
Information that schools maintained by a local authority must or should publish on their website.
Information that academies – including any educational setting with academy arrangements – and further education (FE) colleges must or should publish on their website.
Guidance about using the pupil premium, service premium or early years pupil premium oversubscription criteria in school admissions.
Statutory guidance on how schools should organise and run their pupil admission appeals.
How and when to apply for childcare places and schools.
Guidance and templates to help free schools write their admission and referral policies.
Guidance to help admission authorities advise those involved with school admission appeals to understand their roles and responsibilities.
Statistics on appeals against admission decisions in primary and secondary schools.
Statistics on secondary and primary school applications, including details of offers parents receive on National Offer Day.
How local authorities should submit data for the annual school preference collections.
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