The procedure for applying for secondary school places for children transferring from primary and junior schools to secondary education.
Secondary admissions timescale September 2024
- July 2023 - Admissions and Transport team, inform schools of children in their normal area.
- Week commencing 4 September 2023 - Information on application process distributed to all Year 6 children and school prospectuses available in primary schools.
- Monday 11 September 2023 - Online and telephone application facilities open.
- From week commencing 18 September 2023 - Preferences start to be recorded on Admissions System and initial information available to schools on SAM.
- Midnight 31 October 2023 – Closing date for submission of applications.
- By Monday 6 November 2023 - Admissions and Transport team send other LAs details of Derbyshire children who have expressed preferences for their schools.
- By Monday 6 November 2023 – Admissions and Transport team to have received from other local authorities details of their children who have expressed preferences for Derbyshire schools.
- By Monday 27 November 2023 – Admissions and Transport team will have released all preference details to own admission authority schools where assessments are done by the school.
- By Monday 4 December 2023 - Admissions and Transport team will have released preference details for checking by own admission authority schools where assessments are done by the Admissions and Transport team.
- By Monday 11 December 2023 – Own admission authority school rankings to be complete on SAM, checked and confirmed to the Admissions and Transport team. Schools should ensure that a Governors' meeting to consider preferences is scheduled to meet this deadline.
- By Thursday 14 December 2023 - own admission authority schools where we assess to have confirmed their agreement to our assessments. Schools should ensure that a Governors' meeting to consider preferences is scheduled in order to meet this deadline.
- By Tuesday 2 January 2024 – Admissions and Transport team send to other local authorities potential offers of places in Derbyshire schools.
- By Monday 8 January 2024 – Admissions and Transport team to receive from other local authorities potential offers of places in their schools.
- By Friday 9 February 2024 – Allocation process complete. Admissions and Transport team to release details of the children to be offered places (subject to receipt of information from neighbouring local authorities). This information is confidential until National Offer Day.
- Friday 1 March 2024 – National Offer Day. Decision available online and letters posted 2nd class where appropriate.
- Friday 1 March 2024 - Waiting lists for all oversubscribed schools established and administered by the Admissions and Transport team.
- Thursday 28 March 2024 – Appeals to be requested by this date (legal requirement 20 school days from closing date).
- April 2024 onwards – Own admission authority schools to inform Admissions and Transport team of the outcome of appeals to the independent appeal panels. Where appeals have been successful, the Admissions and Transport team will deal with any resulting movement.
- Monday 17 June 2024 - Main round of appeals to be heard by this date.
- From Wednesday 4 September 2024 – Schools to notify the Admissions and Transport team of any pupil allocated a place who does not take up the place offered or who leaves whilst the waiting list is maintained.
- 31 December 2024 – waiting lists cease to be maintained by Admissions and Transport team.