Schools with available places in P1 or S1
If your request has been turned down, you may wish to request a place in an alternative school.
Places are available in the schools listed below, and you may ask us for a place in for one of these schools.
This list is correct as of 8 March 2024. Please note that this may change at any time and places are limited.
To request a place in P1, simply fill in our contact form and in the 'details of your enquiry' box, state you are making a second preference request and give the name of the school you wish to apply for.
To request a place in S1, make a second placing request.
Make a second placing request for S1
Primary schools
- Broomhouse Primary
- Buckstone Primary
- Canal View Primary
- Clovenstone Primary
- Echline Primary
- Hillwood Primary
- Lorne Primary
- Maybury Primary
- Niddrie Mill Primary
- Oxgangs Primary
- Ratho Primary
- Sighthill Primary
- St Francis' RC Primary
- St Margaret's RC Primary
- Stenhouse Primary
Secondary schools
- Castlebrae Community Campus
- Drummond Community High
- Tynecastle High
- Wester Hailes High