Derbyshire Now – 24th October 2025 Edition

Apply for a secondary school place

If you’re a parent of a year 6 pupil living in Derbyshire time is running out to apply for your child’s secondary school place for September 2026.

If your child was born between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015 and is in their last year of primary school you should apply now.

Applying online is the most efficient method and also allows our school admissions team to most effectively receive and gather the information it requires to allocate places.

The deadline for applications is next Friday 31 October.

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