Applying for a Government School mid-year.

If your child is of school age, you must complete the online school admission form on the Government of Jersey Website.

You will be asked to upload:

• Proof of your address in Jersey
• Proof of your child’s identity
• Proof of both parents’ identities
• Your child’s birth certificate

Children are allocated places a maximum of 1 term before their arrival date in Jersey.  If your catchment school is full, a place will be allocated at the closest school that has space available.

Most children are in school within 5 days of their admission forms and documentation being received.

Applications received within 5 days before the end of the school term will be processed the following term.  School transfers won’t be processed during the school holidays when schools are closed.

School term dates and holidays

How Primary School places are allocated.

Register with your catchment school.  You’ll then be sent an application form in November of the year before your child is due to start school.

Return your application to your catchment school.  They will forward you details to the Department for Children, Young People, Education and Skills who allocate all school places.  You’ll receive an offer of a school place by the end of January.

Parents may request up to 3 schools in order of preference.  If a school is oversubscribed, priority will be given, in the following order, to children who:

1. Have a special educational need and must access a specific school/ are looked after;
2. Have brothers or sisters in the school (Reception to Year 5);
3. Are living in the primary school catchment area;
4. Are living in the secondary catchment area;
5. Have brothers or sisters in the school (Year 6)
6. Have other requests supported by a good educational reason.

Most children start school in the September of the school year that they turn 5 years of age.  This is so that they can experience 3 terms in Reception.  If you are considering delating your child’s start date, then contact the Department for Children, Young People, Education and Skills.

Registering for a primary school reception place

You must register for a reception place at your catchment school by 1^st November of the year before your child is due to start school

• Registration of interest in a reception place
• Find your catchment school

How secondary places are allocated

You will receive an offer of a place at a non fee-paying secondary school if your child attends a non fee-paying primary school (unless they are going to a fee-paying secondary school).

Offers are sent by email in January and decisions about out of catchment places are communicated by the end of February.

If schools are full, then priority is given to students who:

1. Have a special educational need and must access a specific school/ are looked after;
2. Are living in the school catchment area;
3. Have brothers or sisters in the school in Years 7-10;
4. Attend a primary school in the secondary school catchment area;
5. Have a good educational reason for attending a non-catchment school.