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School Enrolment

School Enrolment

The responsibility for a child's education rests with the parent. Most parents choose to discharge this responsibility by enrolling the child in a local authority school.

Generally, children who attend school will go to their local catchment school, which you can check via our mapping page.

You can enrol your child to their catchment school throughout the year. Please contact the school directly with any questions about enrolment arrangements.

Note that enrolments will pause from 1 February for 2 weeks each year. If you are looking to enrol your child during this time, you should contact the school to advise them that you will be putting in an application once the online enrolment reopens.

Denominational Schools

Entitlement to enrol in one of the Council's two Roman Catholic primary schools - St Bernadette's and St Mungo's Primary Schools or the Roman Catholic secondary school - St Modan's is restricted to children who have a baptism certificate from the Catholic Church.

Parents of other primary school aged children who wish to enrol must submit a placing request.

Placement requests for St Modan's must be submitted to Stirling Council. Please follow the link provided.

P1 Enrolment

All children who have their 5th birthday before 28 February 2026 are of statutory school age and may start education in August 2025

Enrolment of pupils into P1 for the 2025/26 session takes place from 1-31 January. Please contact the school directly with any questions about enrolment arrangements.

This year we are asking parents and carers to enrol their children at their catchment schools using our online form.

Note that following the enrolment period ending, ie 31 January, enrolment applications will pause for 2 weeks and will reopen on the Monday after the February break. If you have missed the enrolment window, please contact the school to tell them you will be submitting a late application.

Placing Requests

If you would like to place your child in a school other than the one serving your home address, you should submit a Placing Request using the Placing Request Application Form.

Even if you are planning to make a placing request, please enrol your child at your catchment school, so that a school place is secured for him/her regardless of the outcome of the placing request.

Early Entry Requests

Please refer to our Early Entry to School Request web page.

Deferred Entry Requests

Please refer to our Deferred entry to Primary 1 web page.

Early Learning and Childcare Centre (ELC) Enrolment

For ELC Enrolment please see the dedicated Early Learning and Childcare Place web page.