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Applications for admission to Year 7 for September 2025 must be made to your home's local authority, no matter which school you are applying for. If you are considering applying for the Year 7 September 2025 intake to The Bulmershe School, then the school must be named as a preference on your application.
All admissions are processed through Wokingham Borough Council. Please visit:
Wokingham - Applying for Secondary School 2024 for further information about how and when to apply.
For more information about admissions from home ins the Reading Borough:
Visit Reading Borough Council's Secondary School Admissions Page
Before you apply, please ensure you have read and understood our admission arrangements (see below). These arrangements confirm how applications will be processed by the Admissions Authority and includes our over subscription criteria (which explains how places will be allocated should the school receive more applications than there are available places).
When do I apply:
For September 2025 entry – Applications open 12th September 2024 and close 31 October 2024.
Outcomes will be provided by your home local authority on National Offer Day; 3rd March 2025. If you are offered a school place, you will need to confirm your acceptance of this offer by the deadline provided within your outcome letter.
The Bulmershe School Admission Arrangements
Year 7 from September 2025
(For children who were born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014)
To make an application you will need to contact your home local authority for further information on how to apply.
Admissions Arrangements
Useful documents:
- Supplementary Social and Medical Information Form
- Bulmershe Dedicated Catchment Area
- Corvus: Reasons for Refusal
In-Year Applications
If you wish to apply for a place for your child outside of the Year 7 intake (For example, because you have recently moved to the area or wish to move your child to The Bulmershe School), then you will need to complete an in-year application form.
In-year applications are made directly to The Bulmershe School. Please see below application:
2) In Year Admissions Supplementary Social and Medical Information Form
Wait Lists
Our wait lists will close for the current academic year and parents/carers will need to re-apply for a place at The Bulmershe School for the new school academic year starting in September 2025-26 (this does not apply to students eligible for Year 12).
Children who are the subject of a direction by the local authority to admit or who are allocated to school in accordance with a Fair Access Protocol will take precedence over those on a waiting list.
Parents/carers will be able to re-apply online to The Bulmershe School for the wait list of the year group they are interested in. It is the responsibility of parents to ensure that the Bulmershe School Admission’s Department is informed in writing to if they wish their child’s name to be removed from the waiting list or if their circumstances have changed from the original application.
Appeals for The Bulmershe School
If you have not been offered a place at The Bulmershe School, this is because there were more applications for the school than there were available places and not all requests for places could be met. Places are allocated in-line with the published admissions criteria and your application was not ranked high enough to obtain a place.
Your home local authority should provide you with further information regarding reason for refusals, waiting lists and how to exercise your right to appeal. Please refer to the Wokingham Borough Council document below for further information, including our reason for refusal document:
Wokingham Borough Council: Appeals
Appeals for The Bulmershe School
If your application is unsuccessful, you have the right to appeal against the decision.
If you wish to appeal, please complete the Appeal Application Form and return to Admissions@bulmershe.wokingham.sch.uk
Appeals forms should be sent to us within 20 school days of receiving a refusal letter.
The Bulmershe School has appointed an independent service provider to administer our appeals: Clerks Associates at www.clerksassociates.co.uk You can find national guidance for parents on school appeals at www.gov.uk
Sixth Form Admissions
For applications to the Sixth Form you should contact the school directly. Please see our dedicated Sixth Form Pages for more information
Contact Details
Please do not hesitate to contact the Office at the school if you have any queries regarding admissions.
reception@bulmershe.wokingham.sch.uk
Contact details for Wokingham Borough Council
School Admissions Team
Children's Services
Wokingham Borough Council
PO Box 156
Shute End
Wokingham
RG40 1WN
schooladmissions@wokingham.gov.uk