The closing date for on-time applications for secondary schools was 31 October 2024.
If you submit your application without a good reason after the deadline, your application will be treated as late. This may affect the possibility of your child being offered a place at one of your preferred schools.
- You can make a late application online using the eAdmissions website until 19 August 2025.
- Alternatively you can request a paper application by contacting the Surrey Schools and Childcare Service up to 31 August 2025.
Please read the information below and our step-by-step guide before completing your application form.
From 1 September 2025 any new applications will become in-year applications and you should follow the in-year process to apply for a school place.
Between 1 November and 12 December 2024
We expect all applicants to apply by the closing date, even if they plan to move address. If there is a genuine reason for late application that means you could not reasonably have applied before the closing date supported by written details and evidence, we will treat your application as on time only if the details reach us by 12 December 2024.
After 12 December 2024
All applications received after 12 December 2024 will be treated as late applications and only considered after all on-time applications have been processed. It is likely that there will be no vacancies at the school(s) you applied for, as these will have been allocated to those applying on time. However, if there are vacancies we will co-ordinate offers of places to these schools for late applicants, based on each school's admission criteria. If there are no vacancies your child may be placed on the waiting list for the school(s) you have applied for.
After 3 March 2025
Any application received after 3 March 2025 will be treated for waiting list purposes alongside on time applications, with any places allocated according to each school's admission criteria and not according to whether the application was received on-time or late or the date the child was added to the waiting list.
Applications received towards the end of the summer term or during the summer holidays may not receive an outcome until the start of the autumn term, due to school closures during the summer break.
