Admissions

How do I apply?

Bromley borough residents should apply online using the link at www.bromley.gov.uk

Applying online is quick, safe and secure and gives direct links to school information to help preference decisions. The system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until the application deadline. It is Bromley’s preferred application method and is free, using an easy step by step format. You can check or change details online at any point until the deadline. Bromley Admissions will process the last version of the submitted application. Offers should be accepted online.

 The Trust and its family of schools consulted on our school admissions policies between 12th December 2025 and 30th January 2026.

The consultation is now closed, and the Trust Board has determined the policy at a meeting of the admissions authority.  The updated policies are now available above, and any objections can be made up to 15 May 2026 to the Office of the Schools' Adjudicator.

Our Admissions Policy 2026-2027

Our Admissions Policy 2027-2028

Orion Education Trust Admissions Policy 2027 28 PRIMARIES under consultation updated
18 December 2025

When Will My Child Start School?

A child should by law be attending school at the beginning of the term following his/her 5th birthday.

In Bromley all children born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022 will start school in September 2026. However Bromley schools would consider a request for a child to start in January 2027.

If you are looking for a school place in Year 1 or Year 2 please complete the Primary In-year admission form via www.bromley.gov.uk

If you have a sibling please apply for a place in the normal way. Please be advised that your child will only qualify for a sibling place if both children are at the school at the same time.

Children With A Statement of Special Educational Needs

If your child has a statement of special educational needs, you will not be issued with an Infant to Junior transfer form.

Contact the Special Educational Needs team on 020 8313 4739 for further information.

Applying to Transfer From Infant to Junior School (Year 2 to Year 3)

Parent/carers of children in Year 2 at infant schools must apply online for a Year 3 place at their linked primary/junior school.

Access to the admissions system is from their own local authority websites.

• Children resident in Bromley in Year 2 at an infant school – apply online at www.eadmissions.org.uk from 1st September 2026
• Deadline for linked school applications 14th January 2027.
• Children resident out of borough in Year 2 at Bromley infant schools – applications are via the authority where council tax is paid.

How are places allocated?

Bromley Admissions will give your child’s details to us.

All on time applications will be considered at the same time. We will not be told which preference number you are or which other schools you have applied for. All Bromley schools receive more applications than they have places available and use admissions over-subscription criteria to determine who can be offered. Please see our Admissions Arrangements link above.

Please refer to the website for details on how places are offered for out of borough preferences.

All possible offers are shared and exchanged across Boroughs through the Pan-London Admission System.

PLEASE NOTE:

• If only one preferred school can offer, this is the place you will be offered.
  If more than one of your preferred schools can offer a place, the offer from the school highest on your application will be allocated to you. The lower available offers become ‘no longer required’.
• Any vacant places will be allocated to Bromley children living within a reasonable travel distance who have not received an offer from any of their preferred schools
• On request your child will be put on the waiting lists of any Bromley school you listed higher than the school offered. Waiting list requests for out borough schools will be passed on to the relevant Local Authority.

Key dates Reception Year 2026/27

1st September 2025 – Online application system for Bromley residents available via www.bromley.gov.uk