​Halton Local Authority's Admissions

Application to Primary 2025

National Offer Day for Primary 2025 is 16th April 2025.

If you applied online using the Parent Portal, you will receive an email during normal office hours and you can also login to your online account to view your offer from 00.01 on 16th April 2025

If you applied by paper form you will receive a letter a few days after this date, you will not receive the offer by email. Letters will be posted on 16th April, second class.

For information regarding place offers for this admission round and for an indication of vacancies please view the Primary 2025 Summary.

If you have been unsuccessful and wish to make a formal appeal please visit our School Admission Appeals page.

If you haven’t applied already, please complete the Late Primary 2025 Application Form. If you have applied and wish to submit a new preference, please email schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk with your child’s name, date of birth and the new preference school(s). All new preferences received by 27^th April 2025 will be considered together and outcomes will be communicated week commencing 28^th April 2025. Please allow 10 working days to receive your letter. Please note, a maximum of three preferences can be held for each child, therefore you may be required to withdraw a preference if you have already reached this maximum. You may find it useful to look at vacancy information on our summary sheet before submitting a new preference.

If you have any queries please email schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk

• Admission to Primary School 2025 Booklet
• LATE Primary 2025 Application Form
• Myths about Primary School applications
• Primary 2025 Summary​​

Application to Secondary 2025

National Offer Day for Secondary 2025 is 3^rd March 2025. Emails and letters will be sent on the day and you can also login to your online account to view your offer on Monday 3rd March 2025.

(Offer emails will be sent during normal office hours. For those who applied by paper form, letters will be posted on 3rd March and may take a few days to arrive)

For information regarding place offers for this admission round and for an indication of vacancies please view the Secondary 2025 Summary. 

If you have been unsuccessful and wish to make a formal appeal please visit our School Admission Appeals page.

If you haven’t applied already, please complete the Late Secondary 2025 Application Form. If you have applied and wish to submit a new preference, please email schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk with your child’s name, date of birth and the new preference school(s). All new preferences received by 12^th March 2025 will be considered together and outcomes will be communicated by post following the outcome (please allow 10 days for the letter to reach you). You may find it useful to look at the Secondary 2025 Summary for information regarding vacancies before submitting new preferences.

• Admission to Secondary School 2025
• Late Secondary 2025 Application Form
• Myths about Secondary School applications
  
• Secondary 2025 Summary​

Requests to educate outside of normal age group​

For parents of summer-born children (those born between April 1st and August 31st), wishing to make a formal request to educate their child outside of their normal age group (i.e. they start Reception class in 2026 instead of 2025), please complete and return this Defer Primary Application form to schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk before the deadline of 15th January 2025. You should read the DfE guidance Summer Born Children: Starting School – Advice for Parents before making your decision.

Your preference school(s) will be contacted and a decision will be made in the best interests of the child at the earliest opportunity.​​

HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL DETERMINED ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS AND CO-ORDINATED SCHEMES FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2026 INTAKE

Following consultation, the Council’s Executive Board at the meeting held on 16th January 2025, determined the admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools for the September 2026 intake, and the Primary and Secondary coordinated admission schemes for ​the September 2026 intake, which apply to all schools in Halton (Academy, Free Schools, Voluntary Aided, Community, and Voluntary Controlled). The documents are linked below:

• Halton Determined Co-ordinated Secondary School Admissions Scheme 2026
• Halton Determined Co-ordinated Primary School Admissions Scheme 2026

HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL DETERMINED ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS AND COORDINATED SCHEMES FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2025 INTAKE

Following consultation, the Council’s Executive Board at the meeting held on 18th January 2024 determined the admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools in Halton, and the Coordinated Schemes for both Primary and Secondary schools for the September 2025 intake which apply to all primary and secondary schools in Halton.

• Primary Scheme
  
• Secondary Scheme
  

Should you wish to object to the arrangements, objections must be made to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator by 15th May 2024. A link to the OSA website is here: Office of the Schools Adjudicator.​

Halton LA Report to the Schools Adjudicator​​​

• Halton Local Authority’s Annual Report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator 2020. Office of the Schools Adjudicator annual report is also available.
  
• Halton Local Authority’s Annual Report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator 2021.
• Halton Local Authority’s Annual Report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator 2022.

School Place Planning Strategy

• School Place Planning Strategy 2023-2028

Data Protection

Halton Borough Council is the Data Controller for the personal information you provide.

We collect and hold information about you in order to process your school admissions request, including applications to primary, junior and secondary schools, in-year transfer applications and school admissions appeals.

For further information regarding data protection please visit our Data Protection and FOI web page