Step 1: Check if you can apply for in-year admission

• Overview
• Step 1: Check if you can apply for in-year admission
• Step 2: What you need to know before applying
• Step 3: Choose the schools to apply for
• Step 4: Complete the application form
• Step 5: Outcome of your application
• Step 6: Accept or decline a place
• Step 7: Adding your child to a waiting list

Summary of this step

You must check if you can apply for in-year application, or if you should apply during the normal admissions round instead.

You can make an in-year application if you need to join a school outside of the normal admissions round.

You do not need to apply for in-year admission if your child is:

• currently in year 2 at infant school and you want to apply for them to move in September to junior school or a primary school with a year 3 intake – you should apply for a primary school place.
• currently in year 6 at primary or junior school and you want to apply for them to move to year 7 at secondary school in September – you should apply for a secondary school place.
• currently looked after by a local authority. You should not complete the in-year application form. Instead their social worker should complete our in-year admission for children in care form in order to apply for a school place.

You can apply for in-year admission if:

• you are moving house to Surrey, or within Surrey, and your child cannot continue at their current school.
• your child is being educated at home and you want them to attend a mainstream school instead.
• your child is currently in year 2 at infant school and you want to apply for them to move in September to a primary school that doesn't have a year 3 intake.
• your child is already at school, but you want to move them to a different school.

Continue to step 2: What you need to know before applying