Apply for secondary school

The Starting Secondary School 2025 brochure (PDF) has all you need to know.

Section 3 (pages 16 to 49) of the Starting Secondary School 2025 brochure shows information about all the schools in Waltham Forest. For more information, please visit the school’s website. 

The easiest way to apply is through the eAdmissions website. The eAdmissions guide (PDF) explains how to make the application for your child’s school place online.

When completing your application form please ensure that you tick the relevant box against your chosen schools to indicate any additional priority your child may have for being allocated a place at the school (such as a sibling, medical or social criteria or looked after or previously looked after status).  If you require more information regarding admissions criteria priority, please see the Starting Secondary School brochure above.

Each school has admissions criteria which governs how places are offered to children.  The admissions criteria for community schools is listed on pages 12 to 13 in the brochure.  For all other schools, the criteria is on the school pages in section 3, pages 16-49.

It is your responsibility to provide evidence to support your priority claim and this must be submitted with your application by the closing date. If you submit the evidence after the closing date, it may not be possible for school admissions to consider it before places are allocated on national offer day. If you tick the box on the application form but you do not provide any supporting evidence, your application will not be considered under this priority, and you will not be reminded to submit your evidence.

If you have any technical issues when applying online, please go to the eAdmissions support page. If you still require help after visiting this page please contact the admissions team by email:admissions@walthamforest.gov.uk

If you are unable to apply online, you can download and complete the secondary common application form (PDF). It has instructions explaining how to submit the application once it has been completed.