Please read our parents guide to applying for a secondary school place in Wiltshire before making your application.

• Some foundation and aided schools with religious admissions criteria will ask you to complete a supplementary application form
• These forms are available from the schools directly and must be returned to them by the closing date
• Completing a supplementary form does not mean that you have made an application
• You must still make an application to Wiltshire Council

Deadline

• All paper and online applications must be received by midnight.
• Applications received after the deadline without exceptional reasons are not considered until all the applications received on time have been allocated
• You are less likely to secure a place at your preferred school and you will not receive an offer of a place until late April 2025
• It is important that you apply on time to avoid disappointment.

Exceptional circumstances deadline

Only in exceptional circumstances such as those listed here will a late application be considered at the same time as applications received by the deadline of 31 October 2024.

1. where there has been a change of family circumstances after the deadline date which has a significant effect on the preferences given on the original application. (If this is a house move this must have been completed with an exchange of contracts before 16 December 2024.
2. a move into Wiltshire from outside the county after the deadline date but before 16 December 2024. Confirmation of the new address (in the form of an exchange of contracts or a tenancy agreement) must be provided before 16 December 2024.
3. Service personnel moving to a Wiltshire address after the deadline date. A posting notice must be provided before 16 December 2024
4. where a common application form has not been received by the local authority, but the parent can provide proof of posting.

Such late applications can only be considered if they are received by the local authority on, or before, 16 December 2024.

Documentary evidence should be provided with the application (or at the latest by 16 December 2024) to verify the circumstances which caused the late application to be made. If evidence cannot be provided, the application will not be treated as an exception.

Applications received after the deadline without exceptional reasons are not considered until all the applications received on time have been allocated. You are less likely to secure a place at your preferred school and you will not receive an offer of a place until 25 April 2025.

The School Admissions Team

• will liaise with schools and other authorities to make sure that, where possible, parents get a single offer for the highest preference school able to offer a place

Offer day

• Letters are posted to all parents who applied by the 31 October 2024 deadline offering them a place at one school
• Parents who apply online will be able to log back on to the online system on national offer day to view the outcome of their application
• You will require your username and password which was created at the time of application.
• It is important that you keep these details safe as the school admissions team are not able to send duplicate emails to you confirming these details.
• You will also receive confirmation of the offer by letter.

Deadline

• For parents to accept the place they have been offered
• If you have been refused a place at your preferred school you can appeal and request that your child's name is added to the waiting lists

Further information will be contained in the decision letter that will be posted out to you on national offer day

Second round offers

• Late applicants (second round applications received between 1 November 2024 and 7 March 2025) will be considered alongside any applicants who were refused in the first round
• All applications will be considered in line with the schools individual over subscription criterion and any spare place and places that have become available after the 1 March offer day, will be reallocated

For further information about the process for allocation places please view 'Determined Co-ordinated Scheme for Primary Schools' which can be found by clicking on (forms, guides and policy document).

Third round offers

• Late applicants (third round applications received after 07 March 2025) will be considered alongside any applicants who were refused in the first and second round
• All applications will be considered in line with the schools individual over subscription criterion and any spare place and places that have become available after the 3 March offer day, will be reallocated

For further information about the process for allocation places please view 'Determined Co-ordinated Scheme for Primary Schools' which can be found by clicking on (forms, guides and policy document).

Deadline

• Any applications received after this date will be considered as in-year transfer applications