Schools transactions update 2 June 2025
Read an update on P1 and S1 places – it’s time to mark your N5 and P7 leavers.
P1 and S1 school allocations update
During the last week of May 2025 we carried out a third round of school place offers to children on waiting lists, and answering all late placing requests received up to 18 May 2025. This includes any further second preference requests we’ve been able to grant.
Both the P1 EPR system and SEEMiS provisional allocations for S1 places have been updated, but we will also be emailing schools to advise of any recent changes.
Mark your N5 and P7 leavers
SEEMiS Support have sent out the instructions for Turnaround Preparation, which includes marking all N5 and P7 children to the primary or secondary school they have been allocated for P1 and S1.
As nurseries do not have access to the Gateway EPR Manager system, on Friday 30 May Transactions sent out a spreadsheet to every CEC nursery with the details of each pupil and their registered primary school. The Early Years team will deal with leavers for the partnership sites.
There are a small number of children with no place allocated yet – this is because there are no available places in their catchment school. We will be identifying alternative schools for these children, and they will all be allocated and notified within the coming weeks.
What if a place is no longer required?
If parents contact you advising they no longer require a place, please use the contact form to let us know. However, you don't need to tell us about:
- Places in special schools and classes - these are allocated by the Parent & Pupil Support Manager (Additional Support for Learning). We withdraw these places as and when the ASL team confirm these to us. If you believe a pupil has been allocated a place in a special school or class and they still show on your provisional intake, contact us and we'll check.
- Nursery deferrals - these are notified to us by Early Years. We’ve already deleted enrolments for all known approved deferrals.
If a family is moving to a new address within Edinburgh, please advise the parent to complete the change of address form.