Halton Local Authority's Admissions

Application to Secondary 2023

National Offer Day for Secondary 2023 is 1st March 2023. Emails and letters will be sent on the day and you can also login to your online account to view your offeron Wednesday 1st March 2023.

(Offer emails will be sent during normal office hours. For those who applied by paper form, letters will be posted on 1^st March and may take a few days to arrive)

For information regarding place offers for this admission round and for an indication of vacancies please view the Secondary 2023 Summary.

If you have been unsuccessful and wish to make a formal appeal please visit our School Admission Appeals page.

If you haven’t applied already, please complete the Late Secondary 2023 Application Form. If you have applied and wish to submit a new preference, please email schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk with your child’s name, date of birth and the new preference school(s). All new preferences received by 10^th March 2023 will be considered together and outcomes will be communicated by post following the outcome (please allow 10 days for the letter to reach you). You may find it useful to look at the Secondary 2023 Summary for information regarding vacancies before submitting new preferences.

• Admission to Secondary School 2023 Booklet
• Late Secondary 2023 Application Form
• Myths about Secondary School applications​
• Secondary 2023 Summary​

Application to Primary 2023

Applications are now open for parents/carers of children born between 01/09/2018 and 31/08/2019 wishing to make an application for their child to start Primary School in September 2023.

The deadline for Primary 2023 applications was Sunday 15th January 2023 and has now passed​.

Parents/carers wishing to make an application are now required to complete the Late Primary Application Form 2023 or you can visit any of the Halton Direct Link Offices to request one. Forms can also be obtained by emailing schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk

Please take a look at the Admission to Primary School 2023 Booklet before making an application.​

You may also find the following documents useful when preparing your application:​​​​

• Myths about Primary School applications
• Primary 2022 Summary​​
  

Requests to educate outside of normal age group

For parents of summer-born children (those born between April 1st and August 31st), wishing to make a formal request to educate their child outside of their normal age group (i.e. they start Reception class in 2024 instead of 2023), please complete and return this Defer Primary Application form  to schooladmissions@halton.gov.uk before the deadline of 15th January 2023. You should read the DfE guidance Summer Born Children: Starting School – Advice for Parents before making your decision.

Your preference school(s) will be contacted and a decision will be made in the best interests of the child at the earliest opportunity

PREPARING YOUR CHILD FOR SCHOOL

To help you in getting your child ready for school Halton has an Early Years Strategy and has also prepared a booklet with guidance on how to prepare your child for school and how to get support from birth up to five years old, The Early Years Newborn to 5 Years Booklet.

HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL DETERMINED ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS AND COORDINATED SCHEMES FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2024

Following consultation, the Council’s Executive Board at the meeting held on 19th January 2023 determined the admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools in Halton, and the Coordinated Schemes for both Primary and Secondary schools for the September 2024 intake which apply to all primary and secondary schools in Halton.

• Primary Scheme
• Secondary Scheme

Should you wish to object to the arrangements, objections must be made to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator by 15th May 2023. A link to the OSA website is here: Office of the Schools Adjudicator.

HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL DETERMINED ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS AND CO-ORDINATED SCHEMES FOR THE

SEPTEMBER 2023 INTAKE

Following statutory consultation that ran from 1st October to 12th November 2021 the Council’s Executive Board approved the proposed admission arrangements for LA maintained community and voluntary controlled primary schools and co-ordinated admissions scheme for all Halton primary schools for the September 2023 intake, together with the co-ordinated admissions scheme for all Halton secondary schools for the September 2023 intake, at the meeting held on 20th January 2022. A link to the determined arrangements for primary and secondary schools is below

• Halton Determined Co-ordinated Secondary School Admissions Scheme 2023
• Halton Determined Co-ordinated Primary School Admissions Scheme 2023

If anyone wishes to object to the arrangements those objections must made to the Schools Adjudicator by 15 May 2022. A link to the OSA website is here: OSA

Halton LA Report to the Schools Adjudicator

• Halton Local Authority’s Annual Report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator 2020. Office of the Schools Adjudicator annual report is also available.
  
• Halton Local Authority’s Annual Report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator 2021.
• Halton Local Authority’s Annual Report to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator 2022.

School Place Planning Strategy

• School Place Planning Strategy 2023-2028

Data Protection

Halton Borough Council is the Data Controller for the personal information you provide.

We collect and hold information about you in order to process your school admissions request, including applications to primary, junior and secondary schools, in-year transfer applications and school admissions appeals.

For further information regarding data protection please visit our Data Protection and FOI web page