Guide to moving up to secondary school

Children born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014 will be moving up to secondary school in September 2025. The dates are below.

Children who do not attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school, and who want to be considered for a Buckinghamshire grammar school, are registered by their families for the Secondary Transfer Test.

Children who attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school are registered for testing automatically. If you do not want your child to be tested, you should tell your child’s school.

If your child does not attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school and you have missed the deadline to register for testing please, contact admissions.

Find my child a school place

Open events information for 2025 entry will be added to our school directory when they are available. Open events are the easiest way to see a school first-hand. You may need to make an appointment.

For most grammar schools, this is the cut-off date for the home address they’ll use for applicants in their first round of allocations, but you should check each grammar school’s admissions policy to make sure.

If your home address changes after this date, your previous address will still be used for allocations on National Offer Day and in the reallocation round.

If your home address changes, you must provide us with evidence .

You can apply for a secondary school place.

Secondary Transfer Testing will take place on:

• 10 and 12 September for children attending Buckinghamshire primary schools and partner schools
• 10 and 12 September, or 11 and 13 September, for children attending out of county schools

For children who do not attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school or Partner school, capacity for grammar school testing is limited: if that capacity is exceeded, further testing sessions may be organised on different dates.

Children who sat the Secondary Transfer Test by 13 September will receive their results on 11 October.

Children who sat the Secondary Transfer Test after 13 September will receive their results as soon as possible after 11 October.

This is the latest date for families of children who go to a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school to hand a paper application form into their child’s school.

The latest date for moving into Buckinghamshire for us to use this address for allocations to upper/all-ability schools on National Offer Day and in the reallocation round.

Buckinghamshire grammar schools have earlier deadlines.

If your home address changes, you must provide us with evidence.

Buckinghamshire residents have until midnight to submit their online secondary school application.

If you are posting a paper application, it must reach us no later than 31 October. All applicants must submit address evidence to accompany their application.

Deadline for a late application (if submitted with evidence to support exceptional reasons for lateness) to be considered timely.

Deadline for all evidence of address changes to be submitted, for the address to be used in relation to allocations on National Offer Day and in the reallocation round.

Deadline for armed forces/crown servant families to submit their child’s application and/or evidence of a posting to Buckinghamshire, for the application to be processed in time for National Offer Day.

View your school place offer.

If you applied via the online application portal you will be able to log in and view your child’s offer. You will also be sent an email.

Families who applied on a paper form or online Common Application Form (CAF) will be emailed if an email address was provided.

This is the latest date we can receive evidence to agree to register a child for the Secondary Transfer Test if they have very recently moved into the area. Testing will take place in July.

If you move to Buckinghamshire after this date you will need to make an in year application and provide evidence of your move. Testing will take place in the Autumn term. View our information on how to apply if you're changing school in-year.

Children go to Transition Day at their new secondary school.

The new school year starts and children attend their new school.