After you apply

What you need to do after you've applied for a place.

Accepting an offer

You will receive your school place offer by email on the evening of 3 March 2025.

You must accept or decline your offer by 17 March 2025. 

To respond to your offer you will need to log into your eAdmissions account – so keep your login information safe.  

Waiting lists

If a school gets more applications than it has places, it will keep a waiting list until at least 31 December 2025. The order pupils get added to the list will be based on the school's admissions criteria

Your child’s name will automatically be placed on the waiting list for any school which was a higher preference on your application form than the school you have been offered.

You must tell us if you do not want your child to be on the waiting for a higher preference school. If a place becomes available at one of your higher preference schools, the place offered at your lower preference school will automatically be withdrawn. 

If you need to find out your child’s position on the waiting list, please contact the admission authority for the school or the borough in which the school is situated after 21 April 2025. 

Secondary school allocations for 2024 entry

Download a list of how secondary school places were allocated on National Offer Day - March 2024 (PDF, 129KB)

Changing your preference

If you get offered a place at the school that was your first preference, you can only change your preference and be added to the waiting list for lower preference schools in exceptional circumstances.

Any change in circumstances will need to be supported with relevant evidence. All requests to be added to a waiting list should be made in writing to the School Admissions team.

Email: school.admissions@croydon.gov.uk

Non Croydon residents

If you do not live in Croydon, please contact your home local authority for their policy on making changes to a school admission application.
 
If you have questions about test arrangements, please check the relevant schools’ websites, or contact the school directly.

Appeals

All Croydon schools are their own admission authority and therefore you must appeal directly to the school. 

Download our admission appeals guidance (PDF, 1 MB)

More information

If you would like more information about the reason why your child was not offered a place at a higher preference school, contact the admission authority that is responsible for the school.

If the school is outside this borough, the admission authority will be either the local authority in which the school is situated or the school itself. Details on admission authorities outside of Croydon are included on page 24-25 of the secondary prospectus below.

Pan-London scheme for the co-ordination of admissions

Pan London scheme for co-ordination of admissions to Year 7 and Year 10 in 2025-2026 (255KB)

Secondary prospectus 2025-2026

Download the secondary schools' prospectus (PDF, 2KB)