What Are The School Admissions Dates And Deadlines?

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Harrow’s school admissions dates are laid out clearly for secondary and primary places, including application windows, offer days, and appeal deadlines. Here’s the current set of dates from published council information.

Secondary school admissions

Stage Date
Application for secondary school opens 1 Sep 2025
Closing date for applications 31 Oct 2025
National secondary school offer day 2 Mar 2026
Deadline to accept or decline offer 16 Mar 2026
Closing date for receipt of appeals 31 March 2026
Appeals heard summer term 2026

Primary school admissions

Stage Date
Application for primary school opens 1 September 2025
Closing date for applications 15 January 2026
Receive outcome of application 16 April 2026
Deadline for acceptance or decline of offer 30 April 2026
Closing date for receipt of appeals 15 May 2026
Appeals heard summer term

For secondary places, Harrow also lists the subsequent offer rounds after the national offer day:

Offer round Closing date for applications to be considered Offer date
2 23 March 2026 25 March 2026
3 6 April 2026 8 April 2026
4 20 April 2026 22 April 2026
5 4 May 2026 6 May 2026
6 18 May 2026 20 May 2026
7 1 June 2026 3 June 2026
8 15 June 2026 17 June 2026
9 22 June 2026 24 June 2026
11 29 June 2026 1 July 2026
12 6 July 2026 8 July 2026
13 13 July 2026 15 July 2026
14 20 July 2026 22 July 2026
15 27 July 2026 29 July 2026
16 3 August 2026 5 August 2026
17 10 August 2026 12 August 2026
18 17 August 2026 19 August 2026
19 24 August 2026 26 August 2026

If you’re dealing with a live application, the main action points are the offer response deadline and the appeal deadline, since those are the ones Harrow treats as fixed cut-offs.