The Secondary Admissions Guide is issued to all children in Royal Borough primary schools who are due for transfer to secondary school in September. It is also available to families who are planning to move into the Royal Borough, or who live outside the Royal Borough, and wish to apply for one of our schools. Application forms for secondary school places for Royal Borough residents can be obtained from the School Admissions Team.
Please see our list of Secondary Schools.
Children can, and do, attend schools outside the Borough. Places are subject to availability and the admissions criteria might be different depending on the type of school. However with the co-ordinated scheme, an application for any school outside the Borough must be included on your Common Application Form. You will only receive one of these and it will be issued by your home Local Authority. It is your responsibility to contact other Admission Authorities to obtain information about their schools and the criteria that is relevant to admission at that school.
All schools in the Royal Borough are comprehensive and meet the needs of all ability ranges. They do not require entrance exams as a form of entry. There are however grammar schools in other authorities. If you wish your child to go to a grammar school, in the first instance, discuss this with your child's current headteacher. If you list a grammar school on your CAF your child will be required to sit an entrance exam. We will forward your child's details to the relevant authority dealing with the admission to that school. You must also contact the grammar school to ensure that you have all the necessary information about that school.