Consultation for School Admission Arrangements 2024/2025

Why are we consulting?

School Admission Arrangements

Admission Arrangements outline how school places will be allocated at each school setting. This includes the school’s over-subscription criteria which is used when schools receive more applications than places available.

For all community and voluntary controlled schools arrangements are determined by the Local Authority. For all other schools this is the responsibility of the individual school or academy trust.

We are consulting on the proposed arrangements for all Bristol community and voluntary controlled primary schools and the admission arrangements for selected Bristol infant to junior school transfers for 2024/2025.

Relevant Areas

The Local Authority also establishes the Relevant Areas for admission arrangement consultations. We are required to define a ‘relevant area’ in which admission authorities must consult on their proposed admission arrangements. These are unchanged from what has been set in previous years but we have included them with this consultation.

Other Admission Authorities

We are also listing the proposed arrangements for a number of 'own admission authority' schools. These are academies, foundation and voluntary aided schools who manage their own admissions.

For more information and how to submit your feedback please visit this link.

What happens next?

Once the consultation period has ended the arrangements will be determined and signed by the Director for Education and Skills and published on the Bristol City Council website by 15^th March 2023.