Admissions arrangements 2025

Admission rules

If a school doesn't have enough places for everyone who applies, the admission rules for that school will be used to decide who will get a place.

Read the admissions policies for all Wokingham Borough secondary schools below.

Schools that decide their own admissions arrangements

The following schools use their own admissions policies:

• Bohunt School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18. 
• The Bulmershe School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to
  18.
• The Emmbrook School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
• The Forest School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
• The Holt School Admissions Policy, a state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
• Maiden Erlegh School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
• Oakbank School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16.
• The Piggott School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 18.
• St Crispin's School Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
• Waingels College Admissions Policy, a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.

Finding out which schools you've been offered

If you applied online on Wokingham's Citizen Portal:

• On 3 March 2025, you'll be able to see which school place you've been offered by logging into the school's application system on the logging into the Citizen Portal website.
• Emails will be sent out on 3 March 2025. 

If you applied using a paper form:

• If you applied using a paper application or opted not to receive an email, you'll be sent your offer letter by first class post on 3 March 2025. 

Accepting the place

Go to the accept or decline a school place web page to decide on the place you've been offered by 17 March 2025.

If you are not happy with the place offered, we recommend that you accept the place and remain on the waiting list for higher preferred schools - doing so does not change your chance of gaining a place and you still have the right of appeal. Any requests for changes have to be made in writing.

Waiting lists

Your child’s name will automatically be placed on the waiting list, in criteria order, of any Wokingham school that you named as a higher preference than the school you have been offered. Waiting list information is not available until after 18 March 2025.

Appeals

If you haven't been offered the school you wanted, you can appeal the decision. Appeals have to be submitted by 29 March 2025. Go to the school appeals page to find out more.

How places are allocated

Read the Parents Guide to Secondary School Admissions (PDF, 7 MB)

For details on how places were allocated during our most recent National Offer Day, read the Secondary school allocation summary (PDF, 192 KB)