Move to a different school (in-year applications 2024/2025)

Find out what you need to know before, during and after applying for your child to move to a different school during the 2024/2025 school year.

Parents and carers can make an in-year application for their child to go to a new school:

  • during the school year
  • at the start of the school year but in a different age group from the school's normal year of entry

How you make an in-year application depends on which school or schools you want to apply for: 

  • Suffolk County Council deals with in-year applications for community and voluntary controlled schools
  • Voluntary aided, free schools and academies deal with their in-year applications directly

The list of schools' details, admissions policies and Supplementary Information Forms for the 2024/2025 school year shows where you need to apply to for each school.

Please be aware: You must consider how your child will travel to and from school before you apply for a school place. Your child might not be eligible for funded school travel to their catchment area school if this is not the nearest suitable school.

How to contact School Admissions

You can contact us using email at admissions@suffolk.gov.uk

If you need to contact us by phone please call 0345 600 0981 (local rate).


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