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Moving from primary to secondary school

Children in P7 are allocated a place at a secondary school. This place is based on their catchment area if your child is

at a primary school run by us
living in the City of Edinburgh Council area.

We sent a letter to parents confirming the allocated school in October. If you didnt receive this, check with your child's primary school as your address may be incorrect.

We aim to place all children in one of their catchment secondary schools if they are resident in the catchment area before the end of February 2020. If you live outside the catchment area you need to make a placing request and you will only receive a place if one is available.

Section three of the Placing in Schools guide outlines the procedure for S1 places.

Download the Placing in Schools guide - PDF

Download the school placements privacy notice - PDF

Apply for your place

You have a choice of two catchment schools

non-denominational
Roman Catholic (RC).

If too many children are allocated to the RC school, priority will be given to children who are baptised in the Roman Catholic faith.

Children who are turned down at their RC school are given a place in their non-denominational school.

Apply for your Roman Catholic catchment school

Decisions on school places

Decisions on non-catchment placing requests and requests for Roman Catholic schools were made on 6 March 2020.

Read about the decisions.

Moving to the catchment area

If you are moving into a different school catchment area before your child starts secondary school, you should complete a change of address form.

Tell us you are changing address