If you are planning on applying for a public school or concertada place for your child this year, or intend to change your child from one school to another, below you will find some of the dates and deadlines for the different stages of the process. This post will be updated as more dates are announced.
12th - 26th March 2025: application period for Infantil and Primària (12th to 26th March for those entering ESO).
Families can submit their application at any point during this period.
The deadline is 23:59 on the 26th of March.
24th April 2025: list of applications with their provisional scores.
At the end of the application period, the education department studies each of the requests they have received. They analyse the data, the priority criteria that families have asked to be taken into account, and also the supporting documents. They then publish the list of applications with the provisional scores each one has received. The applications are then sorted alphabetically in this list with the score received by each student next to their name.
24th - 29th April 2025: submission of objections.
If you detect any error in the points assigned to your application, you can make an objection during this period.
8th May 2025: the lottery.
The number of places in each school is limited. If the number of applications exceeds the number of students that the school can accommodate, it is necessary to have a lottery for applications that have the same score. To do this, a number is drawn by lot from which all requests tied in points are sorted, taking into account the tiebreaker number that has been assigned to each application. The draw will take place at the central services of the Department of Education.
9th May 2025: ordered list.
After the draw, the list of applications for the allocation of places is drawn up. To make this list, students with specific educational needs are considered first; then the rest of the students, taking into account the scores of each application, from highest to lowest and finally the tiebreak (lottery) number that the student was assigned.
16th June 2025: publication of the list of admitted students and the waiting list.
If you need help with any aspect of the application process, get in touch via my contact page or directly book a short call to see how I can help you.