Apply for a school place

If you are applying after the deadline, you will need to complete a late school place application. Please be aware that all on-time applications will be processed before late applications and schools may be filled by on-time applicants.

You can update your application up until the deadline. If you make any changes, you must submit your application again. Otherwise your application will not be considered.

After the deadline, you cannot change your application unless there has been a significant and material change in your circumstances, such as:

• Moving house
• A sibling has started, or has an accepted offer of a place, at your preferred school (or its linked infant or junior school, for primary phase applications)

If you wish to change your application for any other reason, such as changing your preferences, you will have to make a late application.

No, you must still make an application. Community and voluntary controlled junior schools give priority to those attending the linked infant school.

If your child attends a primary or junior school, they may not be able to get a place at the linked secondary school. You must make an application for the secondary school if you want a place there.

Attendance at a nursery class or pre-school, even one based on the school site, or one that is part of the school, does not give you any priority for a place in the reception class at the school. There is also no automatic transfer. If you would like a Year R place in that school, you will need to make an application.

Neither the local authority nor the individual admission authorities can guarantee a place at any school. If you apply for your catchment school as one of your preferences, if there is one for your address, then the chances of being offered a place there are reasonably high. However, a place cannot be guaranteed. Please note that from September 2022 there will not be any catchment areas for our secondary schools.

These applications are known as in-year applications and can be made at any time in the year. They are not part of the 'normal admissions round'.

You can still make an application for a school place but this will be through your current home local authority. You must use the address where you are residing at the time of submitting your application. We can only use the new address once your child is living there.

You will be able to list Southampton schools as your first preference and your waiting list position will be amended once you have confirmed and notified us of your new address, along with sufficient proof of this.

If your child spends part of their week with one parent and part with the other, only one address can be used. This must be the address where they spend most of their time.