Secondary National Offer Day 2026

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Is anyone else anxiously awaiting news of secondary school allocations for September 2026? If so, come and bite your nails with me!

We've applied for 4 schools in our London borough, 3 girls schools and then our 4th choice is co-ed. Last year, we'd have got whichever one we put first, which will be down to changing demographics in London, so I'm hoping the same is true this year. As recently as 3 years ago, we wouldn't have got either of our first 2 choices on either faith or distance grounds, so I'm not counting my chickens!

We should be safe with either of our 3rd or 4th choices, as there's no year we wouldn't have got either of them, but still - I just want to know now!

An hour and a half to go. This day is really dragging…

It really is! DS is back from school now and desperate to just know

What happens varies depending on the LA. Some send out offers to the waiting list as soon as someone rejects a place. Others wait until a fixed date, some time after the deadline for accepting offers, before they will offer any places to the waiting list.

@prh47bridge thank you. I’ll try to find out directly. We are Trafford. It does say the criteria for the waitlist allocation is the same as the system for applying so that’s something I guess.

Looooooooord this last 45 mins is going to take ages

Longest day ever.

I cant really concentrate on working now. DS has offers from top independent schools, now just waiting for grammar results, he treats the 11+ as a trophy-collecting process and attempted quite a few schools, so far no failure yet, but we may be disappointed in the 😂next 30 mins.

20 mins left LONDONNNNNN … it’s just dragging now!!

Good luck Londoners and Surrey-ers! See you on the other side…

Good luck to everyone still waiting. I've talked to my son about his 3rd choice place and he's actually pretty happy. We will still appeal and stay on the wait list but take it as it comes.

5 minutes to go ahhhh

this waiting is hell!

Lets hope they update at 5pm or it's a looooong night!!

4 mins!!! are we able to see exactly 5pm on the portal?

Is anyone else literally shaking with anxiety 🤣🤣🤣

Me!! I’m trying to busy myself with dinner prep and keep burning myself

Bloody portal has crashed! I guess that's no surprise though.

We got our first choice!! Over the moon.

I just logged in to my portal, and my daughter has been offered 1st choice.

we got our first choice grammar school!! tears of joy here

We got our first choice!

First choice here as well, although it's a sibling place so shouldn't have worried!!

Right now to get eldest to choose his GCSEs

First choice here as well - not unexpected since it was massively undersubscribed last year but even so the wait was nerve-wracking especially when I couldn't get my password to work.
Fingers crossed my punt on a massively rapidly improving, tiny school suits her come September.....

Wow! Have always thought our council was pretty rubbish 😂

SW London. Not received anything yet.