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2025 Application Dates & Deadlines

Writer's picture: Anya @ My Barcelona SchoolAnya @ My Barcelona School

Updated: 4 days ago

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.




11th March 2025: initial offer of places.

On this date you will be able to find out the number of school places per centre and grade.


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 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, this is the period in which to make a complaint. How will you know whether the right points have been assigned to your application? Either on the published lists or via your application portal (details will be emailed to you about how to access this).


5th May 2025: Publication of the list of applications once any objections have been taken into account. The schools will publish the list of applications and their respective punctuation points, as well as each applicant's randomly-assigned lottery number.


8th May 2025 at 11h: 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.


21st - 22nd May 2025: extension of pre-registration requests for students with special educational needs without an assigned place. Families will be emailed information about which schools still have ´NEE' places available.


4th - 6th June: extension of pre-registration requests for remaining students without an assigned place. If a student does not get any of the schools they put on their preferred list of schools, they are offered the opportunity to make a new application for schools that still have places free. The final allocation of places is made taking into account these later requests. Families will be emailed information about which schools still have places available.


16th June 2025: publication of the list of admitted students in each school and the waiting list (if there is one).


25th June - 3rd July 2025: Registration Period (Matriculació). For students from I3 (P3) - ESO4 this is when you go to the school you have been assigned and officially accept the place you have been offered. You will need to bring all the documentation supplied as part of the application process as well as vaccination records and a copy of your child's health card.


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.

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