Primary education information for parents - Voluntary-aided and academy schools

Parents who want to apply for places at voluntary aided or academy schools should do so online or on the paper application form and return it to Wirral Local Authority before 15 January 2024. The governing body of the school may need more information so you must also fill in the school’s supplementary form, available from the school.

Each voluntary aided and academy school’s governing body is responsible for its own admissions based on the school’s published admissions policy. The Mainstream Admissions team will pass your details to the governing body of each school you have put down as a preference. The governing body will rank every application using their own criteria. This does not include what order you have put that school in your application, because schools are not allowed to use the order of parents preference in their admission criteria. They will not know whether you have put their school first, second or third.

If your child has a place in a nursery class in an Aided or Academy school, this does not mean that they will automatically get a place in the Foundation 2 class.