You can apply for a place to start as usual in September 2025, after their 4th birthday.
Or you may decide to delay your application and apply next year, to start in September 2026, after your child’s 5th birthday.
Discuss this decision with your child’s current nursery or early years provider.
Your child will usually have started Reception in September 2024, after their 4th birthday.
However, if you decided to delay your application, make an application from November 2024 for a place to start in September 2025, after your child’s 5th birthday.
We won't accept applications from families who have already accepted a Reception place to start in the 2024-25 academic year.
All Hertfordshire community and voluntary controlled schools will accept delayed Reception applications for summer born children.
Schools outside Hertfordshire
If you're interested in applying for a place at a school outside of Hertfordshire, you must contact the relevant admission authority (school or council) to discuss whether your summer born application will be accepted.
Schools responsible for their own admissions
Many schools and academies are responsible for their own school admissions and this is their decision.
You will need to contact the following Hertfordshire Schools about whether they'll accept an application for your summer born child:
Schools responsible for their own admissions
Town | School Name | DfE |
Cheshunt |
Flamstead End School (Cheshunt) |
2001 |
Bovingdon |
Bovingdon Primary Academy |
2003 |
Bishop's Stortford |
Northgate Primary School |
2009 |
Stevenage |
Roebuck Primary School and Nursery |
2024 |
Letchworth |
Garden City Academy |
2029 |
Watford |
The Grove Academy |
2035 |
Hitchin |
Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy |
2038 |
Watford |
St John's Church of England Primary School (Watford) |
2051 |
Cheshunt |
Churchfield C of E Academy |
2063 |
Letchworth |
Wilbury Junior School |
2067 |
Abbots Langley |
Bedmond Academy |
2071 |
Radlett |
Hertsmere Jewish Primary School |
2092 |
Bishop's Stortford |
Avanti Meadows Primary School |
2097 |
Watford |
The Orchard Primary School |
2115 |
Welwyn Garden City |
Watchlytes School |
2118 |
Bishop's Stortford |
Avanti Brook Primary School |
2119 |
Watford |
Knutsford Primary Academy |
2130 |
South Oxhey |
Warren Dell Primary School |
2135 |
South Oxhey |
Oxhey Wood Primary School |
2137 |
Borehamwood |
Meryfield Primary School |
2156 |
Stevenage |
Peartree Spring Primary School (Stevenage) |
2198 |
Welwyn Garden City |
Waterside Academy |
2296 |
Hemel Hempstead |
Hammond Academy |
2337 |
Goffs Oak |
Woodside Primary School |
2401 |
Langleybury |
St Paul's C of E VA Primary and Nursery School (Hunton Bridge) |
3301 |
Hemel Hempstead |
Nash Mills C of E Primary School |
3302 |
Berkhamsted |
St Mary's VA C of E Primary School (Northchurch) |
3315 |
Bishop's Stortford |
St Joseph's Catholic Primary (Bishop's Stortford) |
3318 |
Bishop's Stortford |
St Michael's C of E VA Primary (Bishop's Stortford) |
3319 |
Waltham Cross |
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School |
3326 |
Waltham Cross |
St Joseph's Catholic Primary (Waltham Cross) |
3327 |
Datchworth |
All Saints C E (VA) Primary (Datchworth) |
3329 |
Great Amwell |
St John The Baptist VA C of E Primary School |
3334 |
Hertford |
St Joseph's Catholic Primary (Hertford) |
3341 |
Broxbourne |
Broxbourne CE Primary |
3344 |
Hoddesdon |
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School |
3345 |
Great Hormead |
Hormead C of E First School |
3347 |
St Ippolyts |
St Ippolyts C of E (Aided) Primary School |
3348 |
Kings Langley |
Chipperfield St Paul's VA C of E Primary School |
3349 |
Letchworth |
Norton St Nicholas C of E (VA) Primary School |
3350 |
The Gaddesdens |
Little Gaddesden C of E VA Primary School |
3352 |
Much Hadham |
St Andrew's C of E Primary and Nursery (Much Hadham) |
3353 |
Cockernhoe |
Cockernhoe Endowed C of E Primary School |
3358 |
Rickmansworth |
St Mary's Church of England (VA) Primary School (Rickmansworth) |
3359 |
Rickmansworth |
St Peter's C of E VA Primary School |
3360 |
St Albans |
The Abbey C of E Voluntary Aided Primary School |
3361 |
St Albans |
St Michael's C of E VA Primary (St Albans) |
3363 |
Stevenage |
St Nicholas C of E Primary School & Nursery (Stevenage) |
3369 |
Tewin |
Tewin Cowper C of E VA Primary School |
3370 |
Welwyn |
St John's CE VA Primary (Digswell) |
3376 |
Woolmer Green |
St Michael's Woolmer Green VA C of E Primary School |
3378 |
Borehamwood |
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School |
3384 |
Hitchin |
St Andrew's C of E VA Primary School & Nursery (Hitchin) |
3385 |
Hemel Hempstead |
St Cuthbert Mayne Catholic Junior |
3386 |
Hatfield |
St Philip Howard Catholic Primary School |
3388 |
Hemel Hempstead |
St Albert the Great Catholic Primary School |
3391 |
Bishop's Stortford |
All Saints C of E Primary and Nursery (Bishop's Stortford) |
3393 |
Rickmansworth |
St John's Catholic Primary (Mill End) |
3398 |
Welwyn Garden City |
Holy Family RC Primary School |
3404 |
Hatfield |
Countess Anne School - A Church of England Academy |
3406 |
Hemel Hempstead |
St Rose's Catholic Infants' School and Nursery |
3409 |
London Colney |
St Bernadette Voluntary Catholic Primary Academy |
3416 |
St Albans |
St Alban and St Stephen Catholic Primary School and Nursery |
3421 |
Cheshunt |
St Paul's Catholic Primary School |
3423 |
Watford |
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School |
3428 |
Potters Bar |
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School |
3975 |
Stevenage |
St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School |
3977 |
Bishop's Stortford |
Windhill21 |
3979 |
Watford |
Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery |
3981 |
Bishop's Stortford |
Summercroft Primary School |
3986 |
Hemel Hempstead |
Broadfield Academy |
3991 |
St Albans |
Samuel Ryder Academy |
4003 |
Royston |
King James Academy, Royston |
4140 |
Royston |
St Mary's Catholic Primary (Royston) |
5200 |
Hertingfordbury |
Hertingfordbury Cowper C of E VA Primary School |
5203 |
South Mymms |
St Giles' C of E Primary School |
5204 |
Cuffley |
Cuffley School |
5205 |
Little Heath |
Little Heath Primary School |
5207 |
Northaw |
Northaw C of E Primary School |
5209 |
Watford |
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School |
5211 |
If your summer born child is in nursery and you want to keep the place another year rather than moving onto a Reception class, you must let your nursery know before the end of spring term. That's before the Easter break.
If you don't let the nursery know, they may offer the place to another child.
If you decide to delay your child starting school, they will still get these hours until the age of 5.