P1 and S1 school place allocations for August 2020 complete
Read to find out about the school place allocations and the next steps.
We completed the first round of allocations for the new P1 & S1 intakes on 6 March. Decisions have been made on placing requests received up to 24 December 2019, and for requests for Roman Catholic schools received up to 29 February 2020. Parents are notified by letter, and these are being posted out over the course of this week. These letters advise if the request is successful or turned down. We expect delivery of these letters to be complete by Friday 13 March.
Waiting lists are now live - as always any pupils remaining on the waiting list by the start of term will be passed to you in August.
Those turned down RC catchment schools are allocated a place in their non-denominational catchment school, and the allocations for the children we've turned down have been transferred accordingly on SEEMiS.
A new webpage has gone live with informaiton on the allocations, including next steps and listing schools with available places - www.edinburgh.gov.uk/schoolplaces2020
Parents turned down may request a second choice by choosing one of the schools listed on page 2.
Viewing Primary 1 allocations
Your allocated pupils appear in Admissions & Leavers > Admissions > Intake Process > Intake Registration Details.
Please read through phase 2 guide to the P1 registration process on the Orb for full details information.
Viewing Secondary 1 allocations
Your allocated pupils appear in Admissions & Leavers > Allocations > Provisional Allocations Report
- Primary schools - change Report Type to ‘Allocated From Report’
- Secondary schools - change this to 'Allocated To Report'
- click 'Get report Data'. This will generate a list of pupils.
Under the heading 'Allocation Type' the categories are as follows:
Accepted by Parent - these are non-catchment requests we have granted.
Allocated by Authority - these are catchment pupils.
Withdrawn - these are pupils previously allocated places but are now withdrawn and should not be counted in your figures.
Note - children who are attending a non-CEC primary school appear as current school ‘Unknown’ on the report. Please contact us if you'd like to know where these children are coming from.
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.
Places in special schools and classes 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.
Similarly, the decisions on nursery deferrals are notified to us by Early Years. The closing date is 31 March 2020 so the majority of decisions will be made by the end of April.
If a family is moving to a new address within Edinburgh, please advise the parent to complete the change of address form.
Important information about your intake
The data on Click+Go is subject to significant change between now and the start of term. If a change is made to either P1 or S1 intakes you will be notified by email.
You may notice that there are more children allocated places than the agreed intake limit for your school. This is because we guarantee places for all children at their non-denominational catchment school if they applied before 29 February 2020. We always start with higher numbers and experience from past years shows these numbers do drop. The figures will be carefully monitored and appropriate action taken if necessary.
Next steps
A second allocation will take place in early April once the initial nursery deferrals are known. Until then we will be keeping a log of any changes, i.e. families moving address, late requests etc.
A third allocation will take place towards the end of April / early May and we'll answer the second choice requests at this time.
We plan to have everything as up-to-date as possible before the appeals begin. At this time we'll ask you to contact parents to confirm their acceptance of the places allocated, and you can then mark your leavers on SEEMiS.
We'll post the next update once the second allocation has been completed.