Apply online

Please read the following information before making an online application

Who can use the online application?

Our Online Admissions System is available to all parents / carers whose children are:

• due to start lower school in the September 2009 academic year, no matter where the child lives
  
• due to transfer to middle school in September 2009, no matter where the child lives
  
• due to transfer to upper school in September 2009, but you must be resident in the existing administrative area of Bedfordshire County Council (that is you pay council tax to Bedford Borough Council, Mid or South Bedfordshire District Councils).

If you are applying for a secondary school place in another Local Authority area you must not use the online system as the system is set up specifically for lower school admissions and middle and upper school transfers. You will therefore need to complete an transfer to  Secondary School application form |(PDF document opens in new window).

You must only use one method to apply for a school place. If you have already submitted your paper application form you must not apply online, similarly if you apply online you must not make a paper application.

Please read the information booklets  Starting School| (PDF document opens in new window) and  School Transfer booklet  |(PDF document opens in new window)before you make your online application. The booklets contains important information about the admissions process and details of the admissions criteria for individual schools. If your child currently attends a Bedfordshire middle or lower school you will receive the  School Transfer  booklet   |(PDF document opens in new window) via your child's current school in the Autumn term 2008.

Catchment areas

Supplementary information

Religious grounds

If you are applying for a place at the following schools because you are a practising member of a religious faith, please download the appropriate form. FORM 1 for  application to Church of England schools| (MS Word document opens in new window) or FORM 2 for  application to Catholic schools| (MS Word document opens in new window).

Please ask your priest, minister or faith leader to complete and sign the form.

Form 1	Form 2
Ashton St Peter's Lower, Dunstable	St Joseph's Lower, Bedford
Christopher Reeves Lower, Podington	St Vincent's Lower, Houghton Regis
John Donne Lower, Blunham
Meppershall Lower	St Gregory's Middle, Bedford
Northill Lower
Pulford Lower, Leighton Buzzard	St Thomas More Upper, Bedford
Ravensden Lower
Riseley Lower
Roxton Lower
St James' Lower, Biddenham
St John Rigby Lower, Bedford
St Lawrence's Lower, Wymington
St Leonard's Lower, Heath & Reach
St Mary's Lower, Caddington
St Mary's Lower, Clophill
St Vincent's Lower, Houghton Regis
Sutton Lower
Thomas Whitehead Lower, Houghton Regis
Wilden Lower
Alban Middle, Great Barford
Ashton Middle, Dunstable
Holywell Middle, Cranfield
Manshead Upper, Dunstable

In addition, if you are applying for a place at the following Catholic schools, because your child has been baptised, you must provide a copy of their Baptismal Certificate: 

• St John Rigby, Bedford 
• St Joseph's, Bedford 
• St Mary's, Caddington 
• St Vincent's, Houghton Regis 
• St Gregory's, Bedford 
• St Thomas More, Bedford

You are now ready to make an online application | (form opens in new window).

Parent feedback

We would welcome your views on the process. If you decide to apply online, we would be grateful if you could complete the feedback form | (form opens in new window).

If you need help in understanding the transfer process please contact us on the School Admissions Service General Enquiries Line (01234) 718120 or email admissions@bedscc.gov.uk |. Please note that we are not able to offer technical support.