Application process opens 

Application Deadline 

Allocation letters sent by post 

Allocation email sent 

Deadline for response to allocation 

Online system opens for you to apply online.

Open events at schools. 

Find individual school details in the schools directory.

Deadline to apply for a school place.

Last date to submit a written explanation giving reasons why your application was late, for your application to be agreed as ‘on time’.

If you move house, this is the last date for you to provide evidence of your new address and for it to be considered ‘on time’ in the allocation process.

Applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until the week commencing 16 June 2025.

National allocation day

We will email you the school you've been allocated, if you applied online and confirmed your email address. The online allocation system will be updated with allocations and be available only after allocation emails have been sent.

If you applied on paper, we will send you a notification letter and response form by first class post.

If you applied online, you can use online facilities including appeals and continuing interest.

Continuing interest applications open.

You can add new school preferences for some Hertfordshire schools for the first continuing interest run. Information will be available online on 16 April 2025.

Continuing interest lists are created.

Applicants with unmet higher preferences will automatically go on the list for those schools.

Parents or carers should confirm this with schools responsible for their own admissions.

Last date for accepting the place offered.

Online applicants must accept the place online.

Paper applicants should return their response form to the Admissions and Transport team.

First continuing interest run.

We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the first continuing interest run.

Last date to register an appeal.

Continuing interest applications open for the second run.

You can add new preferences for any school for the second continuing interest run.

Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest run.

Second (and final) continuing interest run.

We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the second continuing interest run.

If school vacancies occur, places will be filled from remaining continuing interest lists.

School admission appeals take place during this period.

Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for junior and middle schools close on 19 June 2025.

To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire junior or middle school, you will need to make an in year application from 20 June 2025.

Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for primary schools close on 23 July 2025.

To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire primary school, you'll need to make an in year application from 24 July 2025.

Online system opened for you to apply online.

Open events at schools. 

Find individual school details in the schools directory.

Deadline to apply for a school place.

Last date to submit a written explanation giving reasons why your application was late, for your application to be agreed as ‘on time’.

If you move house, this is the last date for you to provide evidence of your new address and for it to be considered ‘on time’ in the allocation process.

Applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until the week of
28 April – 2 May 2025.

National allocation day

We will email you the school you've been allocated, if you applied online and confirmed your email address.

The online allocation system will be updated with allocations and be made available only after allocation emails have been sent.

If you applied on paper, we will send you a notification letter and response form by first class post.

If you applied online, you can use online facilities including opting out, making a new application and submitting an appeal.

Continuing interest lists are created.

Applicants that didn't get any higher preference schools will automatically go on the list for those schools.

Parents or carers should confirm this with schools responsible for their own admissions.

Continuing interest applications open.

You can add new preferences for some Hertfordshire schools for the first continuing interest run. Information will be available online from 3 March 2025.

Last date to accept the place offered.

Online applicants should accept the place online.

Paper applicants should return their response form to the Admissions and Transport Team.

First continuing interest run.

We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful.

Last date to register an appeal.

Continuing interest applications open again.

You can add new preferences for all schools for the second run of continuing interest.

Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest run.

Second (and final) continuing interest run.

We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the second continuing interest run.

School admission appeals take place during this period.

If school vacancies occur, places will be filled from remaining continuing interest lists.

Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for Year 9 (upper school) and Year 10 (studio school or university technical college) close on 19 June 2025.

To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire upper or studio school or UTC you will need to make an in year application from 23 June 2025.

Continuing interest lists for secondary schools close on 23 July 2025.

To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire secondary school you will need to make an in year application from 24 July 2025