This page relates to children born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014.
Application process now closed
The application process was open from 12 September 2024 to 31 October 2024. Any applications submitted now will be considered late.
Make a late application
Make sure you read all the information below before completing your application.
This process is for Bracknell Forest residents only. If you are not a Bracknell Forest resident, you must apply to your home local authority. This applies no matter what school you wish to apply for.
The admissions process to apply to start Year 7 from September 2024 closed on 31 October 2024.
Where it can be reasonably assumed that an application could have been made by the closing date, the application will be considered as late. It will be processed in the second round of admissions which begins on 24 March 2025.
Before applying you must read The Guide to Secondary Education 2025 to 2026.
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To make a late application, fill in our online form.
Make a late application for Year 7, September 2025
Supporting documents
Birth certificates and proof address
Birth certificates and proof of address documents must be submitted with your application to Bracknell Forest School Admissions.
Do not send birth certificates and proof of address documents to schools or other local authorities.
Bracknell Forest schools
Bracknell Forest School Admissions will forward documents to Bracknell Forest schools if they are part of the admission arrangements (for example, social and medical forms).
You can attach documents to your online application or email them directly to school.admissions@bracknell-forest.gov.uk.
Schools outside Bracknell Forest
You must send any documents which are part of their admission arrangements directly to the admission authority. Bracknell Forest School Admissions will not send these to schools outside Bracknell Forest.
This does not apply to birth certificates and proof of address documents. These are only to be sent to Bracknell Forest School Admissions.
It is your responsibility to make sure you have read the relevant admission arrangements and submitted any additional information required directly to that admission authority.
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What happens next
On time applications - received between 12 September and 31 October 2024
On time applications are those received between 12 September 2023 and 31 October 2023.
After submitting your application
Make sure all your supporting documents are submitted before the closing date.
Check your emails regularly. School Admissions may contact you for more information to verify your application.
Receiving your offer
You will receive your offer of a school place by email on 3 March 2025.
School Admissions will not confirm offers over the phone.
After receiving your offer
When you receive your offer, you need to finalise your application by accepting or refusing the school place offered. This must be done by 17 March 2025.
Failure to do so may result in the school place offered being withdrawn.
More details will be provided with your offer.
After responding to your offer
When we have received responses from all our residents and have co-ordinated with other local authorities, information will begin to be sent to schools.
Schools will begin to make contact to arrange your child's start.
Late applications - received after 31 October 2024
Late applications are those received after the closing date of 31 October 2023.
After submitting your application
Make sure all your supporting documents are submitted alongside your application.
Check your emails regularly. School Admissions may contact you for more information to verify your application.
Receiving your offer
If you have applied before 17 March 2025, your outcome letter will be sent to you shortly after 24 March 2025.
School Admissions will not confirm offers over the phone.
After receiving your offer
When you receive your offer, you need to finalise your application by accepting or refusing the school place offered. More details will be provided with your offer.
Failure to do so may result in the school place offered being withdrawn.
After responding to your offer
When we have received responses from all our residents and have co-ordinated with other local authorities, information will begin to be sent to schools.
Schools will begin to make contact to arrange your child's start.
If the school place is no longer required
You should tell School Admissions that the school place allocated is no longer required by email school.admissions@bracknell-forest.gov.uk.