Applying for a school place
If your child lives in Nottinghamshire, and you require a school place for September 2025 for the normal point of entry, you must apply for a school place through Nottinghamshire County Council, even if the schools you want are outside Nottinghamshire.
If you’re not sure whether you live in the area covered by Nottinghamshire County Council, you can find your local council on GOV.UK.
For applications not at the normal point of entry (in-year transfers) please see changing school in-year.
Before applying, please read the information linked in the relevant sections below, this contains important information about how school places are allocated.
You should also refer to admissions to schools: guide for parents [PDF] and school information - they contain lots of information about the admissions process and a summary of the oversubscription criteria for Nottinghamshire schools.
More information about applying for a school place:
Below you will find information about important dates and fact sheets.
For September 2025:
- Apply from: 4 November 2024
- Closing date: 15 January 2025
- National Offer Day: 16 April 2025
- Admission to reception and infant to junior (year 3) initial factsheet
For September 2024:
- Apply from: 6 November 2023
- Closing date: 15 January 2024
- National Offer Day: 16 April 2024
- Admission to reception and infant to junior (year 3) initial factsheet
- Admission to reception - National Offer Day factsheet
- Admission to reception - Post Offer Day factsheet
- Infant to junior/primary (year 3) - National Offer Day factsheet
- Infant to junior/primary (year 3) - Post Offer Day factsheet
Below you will find information about important dates and fact sheets.
For September 2025:
- Apply from: 5 August 2024
- Closing date: 31 October 2024
- National Offer Day: 3 March 2025
- Primary to secondary transfer (year 7) applying for secondary school factsheet
For September 2024:
- Apply from: 7 August 2023
- Closing date: 31 October 2023
- National Offer Day: 1 March 2024
- Primary to secondary transfer (year 7) applying for secondary school factsheet
- Primary to secondary transfer (year 7) - National Offer Day Factsheet
- Primary to secondary transfer (year 7) - late outcome factsheet
Parents may seek admission of their child outside the normal age group, for example if the child is gifted and talented, has experienced ill health or is a summer born child whose parent is considering delaying admission until compulsory school age.
You can find out more information by reading Admission of children outside the normal age group (including summer born children).
Advice for parents of summer born children can be found by reading Summer born children: advice for parents - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
