Online system opens for you to apply online

Open events at schools 

Find individual school details in the schools directory

Deadline to apply for a school place

• Last date to submit a written explanation giving reasons why your application was late, for your application to be agreed as ‘on time’
• If you move house, this is the last date for you to provide evidence of your new address and for it to be considered ‘on time’ in the allocation process

Applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until the week of 22-26 April 2019

National allocation day

We will email you the school you've been allocated, if you applied online and confirmed your email address. The online allocation system will be updated with allocations and be made available only after allocation emails have been sent.

Notification letters will be posted first class only to parents or carers who applied on paper.

If you applied online, you can use online facilities including appeals and viewing your continuing interest position.

Continuing interest lists are created.

Applicants that didn't get any higher preference schools will automatically go on the list for those schools.

Parents or carers should confirm this with schools responsible for their own admissions.

Continuing interest applications open.

You can add new school preferences for some Hertfordshire schools for the first continuing interest run. Information will be available online from 1 March 2019.

Last date for accepting the place offered.

Online applicants must accept the place online.

Paper applicants should return their response form to the Admissions and Transport team.

First continuing interest run.

We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the first continuing interest run.

Continuing interest applications open again.

You can add new school preferences for all schools for the second continuing interest run.

Last date to register an appeal.

Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest run.

Second (and final) continuing interest run.

We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the second continuing interest run.

If school vacancies occur, places will be filled from remaining continuing interest lists.

School place appeals take place during this period.

Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for Year 9 (upper school) and Year 10 (studio school or university technical college) close in June 2019 (exact date TBC).

To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire upper or studio school or UTC, you will need to make an in year application

Continuing interest lists for secondary schools close on 24 July 2019.

To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire secondary school you will need to make an in year application