Year 7 and reception offers - 2025

On-time applicants

If we have not been able to offer your child a place at your preferred school, this is because there were more applications for the school than there were available places. Not all requests for places could be met. 

Late applicants

If we have not been able to offer your child a place at your preferred school, this is because the school has reached their published admissions number. 

Reason for refusal

More information can be found in the 'reasons for refusal' document at the bottom of this page.

For details of the number of applications received for Bracknell Forest schools and how these were ranked against the relevant admission criteria, see how school places are allocated.

Your child’s name will be added to the waiting list for any Bracknell Forest school listed higher on your application than the school place offered. 

For information on waiting lists for non-Bracknell Forest schools you should contact the relevant admissions authority.

Offers from waiting lists

School Admissions cannot confirm when a school place will be offered to your child.

However, if a place becomes available for your child from a waiting list you will be informed immediately. School Admissions will contact you using the contact details provided on your application.

If any of the details you provided have changed, make sure you contact School Admissions to update them. 

With schools becoming increasingly oversubscribed, School Admissions will require a prompt response from you regarding any waiting list offer. Parents are expected to accept the offer of a place for a higher preference school.

School Admissions may give a short deadline to accept this offer and if a response is not received, the offer will be withdrawn.

It is important to note that positions on waiting lists are not fixed. Waiting lists are ranked by criteria order, not how long you’ve been on the waiting list. If applicants do not fulfil any criteria, they will then be ranked by distance. 

Offers can only be made once all acceptances and refusals are received. School Admissions will not make any waiting list offers until the second round of admissions.

Remaining on a school waiting list

Most waiting lists for Bracknell Forest schools will close at the end of the academic year you have applied for (July 2026).

However, some own admission authority schools within Bracknell Forest only hold a waiting list until the end of the autumn term (December 2025). You should refer to the individual school’s admission arrangements 2025 to 2026 for more information. Visit the relevant school's website for this information.

If you are not offered a place at your preferred school for the 2025 to 2026 academic year, you can request to join the waiting list for the next year - 2026 to 2027 (Year 1 or Year 8). To be added, you need to re-apply using the in-year application form no sooner than 20 school days before the start of the new academic year.

You can appeal for any school listed higher than the school place you have been offered. Visit school admission appeals for more information.

Before you submit an appeal, make sure you read the 'information about appeals' document at the bottom of this page. 

If you wish to make an amendment to your application, such as making a change of preference or updating your address you must fill in the amendment form below.

If you wish to consider changing your preferences, you need to remember that you are only allowed 3 preferences on your application.

Making a change could result in the school place offered being withdrawn or your child’s name being removed from the waiting list for your preferred schools.

Consider this carefully before filling in the online form. You may wish to contact School Admissions for advice.

Make an amendment to my application

Schools will send welcome packs to families. The timescales for this vary and you should contact the schools directly for more information.

Schools may wish to introduce your child to reception through a staggered start in September 2025. However, if you want your child to start school full-time, this is a parental right. For more information, read our school starting age page. 

If you have not sent us a copy of your child’s birth certificate, you must do this now.

It can be a scanned or photographed copy. It must be clear and readable. Email the copy to school.admissions@bracknell-forest.gov.uk.

If you have misplaced or lost your child’s birth certificate, you should still respond to the offer.

You may be able to order a new birth certificate, see our birth certificates page for information.

Once received, a copy can be provided to School Admissions as detailed above.

For more information on school transport, read our school transport page.