Apply for a secondary school place

Offer emails will be sent in the evening of 1 March 2023. The online application system is updated with offers, and applicants can respond from the evening of 1 March 2023.

Responding to offers (accepting/rejecting)

You must accept or decline the offer by Wednesday 15 March 2023.

You must respond to the offer through the eAdmissions website. You will need the username and password you used when you made your application. If you can't remember this information, you can use the 'Forgotten your username or password?' option.

Once you have logged in, go to the 'My school admissions' page then select 'View outcome and respond.'

• We strongly advise applicants to accept the place offered. Accepting the offer secures the school for your child, so you have a back up, in case you’re unsuccessful in the second or third rounds or your appeal is not upheld
• Accepting the place does not affect your waiting list position or appeals
• If you do not accept the offer the place may be offered to another applicant, and subsequent offers may be further away from your home.

Detailed information about how school places were offered on National Offer Day is available here

If you do not live in Brent and you want a place in a Brent school, you will need to apply to the council that you live in. 

• September / October - Visit schools during their open day or evening events
• 1 September 2022 - Applications open
• 31 October 2022 - Applications deadline
• 1 March 2023 - National offer day
• 15 March 2023 - Response deadline

Second round of offers

• 15 March 2023 -  Deadline for applications and changes
• Week ending 24 March 2023 - Second round of offers are made
• 31 March 2023 - Second round response deadline

Third round of offers

• 28 April 2023 - Deadline for applications and changes 
• Week ending 19 May 2023 - Third round offers
• 26 May 2023 - Third round response deadline

• September 2023 - Children start school

Apply for children born between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012 who will start secondary school in September 2023.

The deadline to submit your on-time application is Monday 31 October 2022.

Applications received after this date will be considered as 'late' and will not be considered until the second round of offers.

Important information about how to apply

Your address

• Use your child’s permanent home address on 31 October 2022
• Do not use the address of a relative or someone who provides temporary care for your child, a business address, a childminders address or any address other than the child’s permanent home address
• We will check internal databases to confirm your address and will write to you if you need to submit further evidence of your address
• If you submit a late application, use your child's permanent home address at the time you submit the application.

Your preferred schools

• List up to 6 preferences. List the school you want the most as your first preference
• Include your local schools amongst your preferences
• You can include schools outside Brent
• Listing only one or two schools does not increase your chances of being offered a place.

Additional information and evidence

• Attach additional information to your application online or post it to School Admissions, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, HA9 0FJ.
• A supplementary information form (SIF) is required for some schools. The online application form will advise you if a SIF is required. You should send SIFs direct to the school
• Evidence is required for looked after and previously looked after children. The social worker involved must provide a letter confirming that the child is in care. If the child was adopted immediately after being in care please provide a copy of the child arrangements order, special guardianship order or proof of adoption from your child’s home authority. If the child was adopted from state care abroad, please provide any relevant paperwork.

There are two further rounds of offers after National Offer Day.

We strongly encourage you to make your application on time. Applications received after 23:59 on 31 October 2022 will be processed as a late application and you will not find out what school you have been offered until the second or third round of offers.

You may be less likely to receive an offer at one of your preference schools if all places have already been offered, however we will still make an offer of a place at the highest available preference school

Late applications will be considered alongside the existing applications of on-time applications who did not receive an offer at their highest preferences schools and who have remained on the waiting list.

What are admissions criteria?

All schools must determine a set of rules - known as oversubscription or admissions criteria - which are used to determine the applications that will have priority for the available places. Oversubscription criteria are only used if a school has more applications than places available. If a school is undersubscribed then all children must be offered a place where the school is their highest available preference.

You should read the admission criteria for your preferred schools to understand the criterion under which your application may be considered.

It can be useful to look at statistics (like the furthest distance from school that a place was last offered) to determine how likely your application is to be successful.

• See information about offers in 2022

Brent Council is the Admission Authority for its Community Primary Schools, and is responsible for formally agreeing the admissions criteria for these schools. We also publish a 'Scheme of Co-ordination' which explains how the council will co-ordinate all applications received for children applying to start primary or secondary school at the beginning of September. Admission arrangements and oversubscription criteria for voluntary aided (faith), foundation schools and academies are also available on this page.

You can see the admissions criteria for every state school in Brent by visiting the school's website or on our admissions criteria page.