Reception Admissions
Reception Admissions 2022-23
(for children born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018)
If your child was born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 they qualify for a full time reception place from September 2022.
Key Dates for Parents
1 November 2021 | Online system opens for you to apply online. | |
Oct/Nov / Dec 2021 | Open events at schools. Find individual school details in the schools directory. | |
15 January 2022 | Deadline to apply for a school place. | |
1 February 2022 |
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4 March 2022 | Applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until the week commencing 13 June 2022. | |
19 April 2022 | National allocation day Notification letters will be posted first class only to parents or carers who applied on paper. If you applied online, you can use online facilities including appeals and continuing interest. | |
19-26 April 2022 | Continuing interest applications open. You can add new school preferences for some Hertfordshire schools for the first continuing interest run. Information will be available online on 19 April 2022. | |
19 April – 3 May 2022 | Continuing interest lists are created. Applicants with unmet higher preferences will automatically go on the list for those schools. Parents or carers should confirm this with schools responsible for their own admissions. | |
3 May 2022 | Last date for accepting the place offered. Online applicants must accept the place online. Paper applicants should return their response form to the Admissions and Transport team. | |
9 – 13 May 2022 | First continuing interest run. We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the first continuing interest run. | |
20 May 2022 (4pm) | Last date to register an appeal. | |
16 – 23 May 2022 | Continuing interest applications open for the second run. You can add new school preferences for any school for the second continuing interest run. | |
23 May 2022 | Last date to register a change of preferences or for new applications to be added for the second continuing interest run. | |
13 – 17 June 2022 | Second (and final) continuing interest run. We'll contact you with an offer of a new school place, if you're successful at the second continuing interest run. | |
June – July 2022 | If school vacancies occur, places will be filled from remaining continuing interest lists. | |
24 June 2022 | Continuing interest lists (waiting lists) for junior and middle schools close on 23 June 2022. To retain your continuing interest for a Hertfordshire junior or middle school, you will need to make an in year application from 24 June 2022. | |
13 June – 22 July 2022 | School place appeals take place during this period. | |
22 July 2022 |
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For further information on key dates, along with a step by step guide to applying, please click here to go to the Hertfordshire Admissions page.
Unsuccessful applicants are able to appeal for a place through the County’s independent appeals procedure.