Residency for school admissions

Moving house in the future

You must still apply from your child's current home address before the national deadline of 31 October for secondary and 15 January for primary.

If you are about to move house, please contact the Area Education Office with your new address so that letters that are sent to you do not go astray. If you have completed on the purchase of a home or have evidence of a confirmed offer of long term tenancy of at least 6 months, together with independent evidence you are residing at the property, you can ask for your child's application to be considered from the new address.

It is required that a family does not only own the property in a particular location, but they are resident in it.

You will also be asked to provide evidence of the disposal of your previous property particularly where there is uncertainty or a dispute relating to the LA establishing one permanent home address for the purposes of allocating a school place.

Please advise your Area Education Office if there are any changes in your child's living arrangements during the application period and allocation of places ie from 1 September 2023 to 1 March 2024 for secondary applications and from 1 September 2023 to 16 April 2024 for primary applications. You may request to change your preferences if you are moving address. This request will be considered by the Admission Authority of individual schools.

Requests due to changes of address that we receive for pupils who are applying for a secondary school place after the deadline for changes (15 January 2024), but before the national offer day (1 March 2024) will be dealt with after the national offer day.

Requests due to changes of address that we receive for pupils who are applying for a primary school place after the deadline for changes (29 February 2024), but before the national offer day (16 April 2024) will be dealt with after the national offer day.