Reception & Nursery Admissions

Please visit our In Year Admissions page.

Our timetable for organising and hearing admission appeals is currently under review and will be published later in the year.

If your child is in Year 6 from September 2024, you are now ready to apply online for a secondary school place for September 2025. To access the Local Authority Website please go to the following web page:

Click here for Liverpool City Council Admissions

Closing date for applications is 31st October 2024.

What do you need to do?

STEP 1 – PREPARATION

• Go to the school open evenings
• Take a checklist along with you of questions you want to ask.
• Collect information either from the school or from the Internet
• School prospectus
• School profile
• Ofsted report
• School website
• Performance tables – available from www.direct.gov.uk
• Include your child
• Ask for and consider their opinions and ideas

STEP 2 – DECISION

Check how closely your child fits the Admission Criteria or Policy – each school has a policy – BE REALISTIC

Over subscription criteria – this is applied if there are more applicants than places

Remember schools criteria differ. For example, community schools apply different criteria to faith schools

What do I need to do?

STEP 3 – APPLICATION

If you live within the boundaries of Liverpool City Council Complete the on-line form

Liverpool City Council Admissions

• If you are an ‘out of city’ resident you must apply to your home authority, e.g. Knowsley, Sefton,etc
• This applies no matter which Primary School your child attends or Secondary School you are interested in
• You can name schools in other authorities on Liverpool’s application form
• Check if the schools you are interested in need a direct application. For example, faith schools and academies. These forms are additional to the local authority application

IMPORTANT:
Apply on time
Keep copies of all receipts
Keep your e-mail address active