Admissions

Your child will be eligible for a primary school place from September 2025, if they were born between:

• 1st September 2020;
• and 31st August 2021.

The deadline to apply for your child’s Primary place for September 2025 was 15th January 2025. If you missed the deadline, you must make a late application

If you need more help, chat online with one of our dedicated customer care advisers or contact the School Admissions Team

Please note: Offers of Primary School places for September 2025 will be made on 16th April 2025.

Your child will be eligible for a place at secondary school from September 2025, if they were born between:

• 1st September 2013;
• and 31st August 2014.

Applications closed on 31st October 2024 (midnight). If you have not already applied you will need to make a late application.

If you are a Calderdale resident, please apply with this link:

Late applications

Offers of places will be made 3rd March 2025.

You will need to do this if you:

• have moved house and would like to apply to change school during the school year.
• would like to apply for your child to go to a different school. (At any time, other than a transfer from nursery to primary or primary to secondary).

For more about this, please see: In-year transfers.

Some schools provide early years education and childcare. For more about this, please read:

Early Years Admissions Policy(PDF 97KB)

Appeals

If your child is not offered a place at your preferred school you have the right to appeal. This will be to an independent appeals panel.

For more details, please see: Appeals for school admissions.

Re-allocations

Are you unhappy with the school place you have been offered? You can ask for your child to be put on a list to be re-allocated.

For more about this, please see: Reallocations.

Late applications

These will only be looked at after applications we received before the closing date are processed.

For more about this, please see: Late applications.