Apply for a secondary school place 2025-26

Use this guide to help you when applying for a secondary school place for the 2025 – 26 academic year

Secondary National Offer Day — Monday 3 March 2025

If you apply online, you will be sent an email on Monday 3 March 2025 telling you your child's school place offer. You can also check the offer on the eAdmissions website.

Log in to the eAdmissions portal to access your online account

Only if you applied using a paper Common Application Form will an outcome letter be posted first class to you on 3 March with a reply form to be returned by the same date.

It is vital that you respond to the offer the offer your child has been made by Monday 17 March 2025. If you are unsure how to do this online, please see our instructions for accepting an offer online.

For further advice about the secondary transfer 2025/26 admissions process and what to do about the outcome of your application please see one of the following question and answer sheets:

Most of the advice given by the School Admissions Team is stated in the details contained in the above information sheets. 

If, after reading the relevant Q&A sheet you still have questions that are not covered, please contact Lambeth School Admissions Team on 020 7926 9503.

Please note that that details of waiting list places will not be available immediately, as lists need to be reordered which may take a week or so to include late applications etc.

See details of how offers were made for Lambeth Secondary Schools on National Offer Day.

If you wish to apply for more schools and applied online for your child's original application, you will need to use a Lambeth paper Common Application Form, as only one online application can be submitted. 

This form can be found in the 'How to apply for a school place' section of this guide.

If you applied after 31 October 2024, your application will be processed after 3 March 2025 and an outcome letter sent in due course afterwards. 

There are no set timescales for outcome letters to be sent.