Public School and Concertada Application Dates & Deadlines 2026

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 the various dates and deadlines for the different stages of the process.

3rd March 2026: initial offer of places.

Publication of the number of school places per centre and year. Find the searchable map here.

4th – 18th March 2026: application period for Infantil and Primària (6th – 18th March for those entering ESO).

Families can submit their application at any point during this period. The application is usually done online. The deadline is 23:59 on the 18th of March.

19th March 2026: deadline for supplying any documentation that is missing.

15th April 2026: publication of the 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.

15th – 20th April 2026: submission of objections.

If you detect any error in the points assigned to your application, you should contact the education department during this period. This claim can be done online.

23rd April 2026: Publication of the list of applications with their respective (updated) scores.

Once any mistakes in points etc have been rectified, each centre publishes the final list of applications with the corresponding score and tiebreak number.

28th April 2026 at 11am: 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 on 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 at 11am.

29th of April 2026: publication of the ordered list.

After the tiebreak 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.

13th – 14th May 2026:  extension of pre-registration requests for students with special educaiton needs without an assigned space.

From 1st – 3rd of June 2026: extension of pre-registration requests for students applying for ‘ordinary’ places without an assigned spot.

If a student does not get any of the schools they out 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.

10th of June 2025: Publication of the final offer of school places where they list the number of school places per school and year. Publication of the list of admitted students and the waiting list.

22nd - 30th June 2026 - 'Matricula'

For students from I3 (P3) - ESO4 this is when families go to the school they have been assigned and officially accept the place they 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.