Applying for a year 7 secondary school place

If your child is currently in year 6 of a primary or junior school, you will need to apply for a year 7 place in a secondary school for September 2018

If your child is already in secondary education and needs to change schools, you will need to make an in-year application.

Preparation

• Key dates
• Find schools in Hampshire
• Check your catchment school
• Decide which schools to apply for

Application guidance

• Address information
• Making an application on medical, physical or psychological grounds
• Applying to a church school on faith grounds
• Definition of displaced children and displaced siblings
• Advice for UK service families
• Picking the right school
• Changing your application after the deadline/making a late application
• How applications are processed

Receiving the outcome

The national notification date for on-time applicants is 1 March 2018

• Online applicants will receive an email on the morning of the notification date. They can also log in to the online system to view the outcome
• If you apply using a paper form, you will be sent a letter on the notification date by first class post. Please allow 3 working days for receipt
• Find out when late applications are considered

What happens next

There is no need for you to accept the place offered to your child at any Hampshire school. However, please let us know in writing if you no longerneed the place so that it can be offered to another child.

If you have not been offered a place at your preferred school, your child will be added to the waiting list. You also have a right of appeal against the refusal.