Primary education information for parents Late primary school applications

Published: 2 September 2024

If you apply for a place in the Foundation 2 year group after 15 January 2024, your application will be treated as ‘late’. Your child will be offered a place at the school of your preference as long as:

  • All applicants who applied on-time before 15 January 2024 have been offered places or have accepted places at other schools.
  • The school has not already filled its places.
  • Your child’s admission would not bring the number in their class to above 30 (see Infant Class Sizes overleaf).

Late applications are considered after all applicants who applied before 15 January 2024 have been offered places or have accepted places at other schools. 

After the closing date for waiting list requests and the closing date for appeals to be lodged has passed, any available places will be re-allocated in accordance with the same order of priority as for the original allocation (see above) and the policy criteria for own admission authority schools, including any late applications received up to that point, as a “mini-allocation”.

After this, late applications and requests will be dealt with as they are received, including mandatory allocations where no preferred school can be allocated.

School places that become available after the mini-allocation takes place will be re-allocated on the basis of the order of priority as set out above, and the policy criteria for own admission authority schools, taking into account any late applications or place requests received up to the date the place is re-allocated.

Wherever possible a place will not be offered at a school more than two miles from your home unless you ask for this, or there is no school within two miles of your home with places available.

Details of any pupils who have named a voluntary aided school or an academy school as a preference will be sent to the governing body, and if there is a place available the governors will decide who should be offered places and inform Wirral Local Authority.

All offers of places will come in writing as soon as possible from Wirral Local Authority. Schools cannot make offers of places direct to parents.