Supplementary information form: what to publish on your school website
If your school is its own admission authority and uses a supplementary information form, your website needs that form, with questions only about oversubscription or selection.
Check this on my websiteWho it applies to
- Published on
- The school's own website
- School type
- Academies and maintained schools
- School stage
- All stages, from early years to sixth form
- Only applies to
- Schools that are their own admission authority: academies, foundation and voluntary-aided schools
- Does not apply to
- No school types are excluded
When it's due
By 15 March each year
With the admission arrangements, for entry in September of the following year.
What's needed
Publish your supplementary information form on the admissions page on your website by 15 March of the year before entry, asking only for information that bears directly on oversubscription or selection.
What it must contain
1 part- Asks supplementary form questions only about oversubscription or selectionMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
What the official sources say
Set out in 1 official source:
School Admissions Code
2.4 In some cases, admission authorities will need to ask for supplementary information forms in order to process applications. If they do so, they must only use supplementary forms that request additional information when it has a direct bearing on decisions about oversubscription criteria or for the purpose of selection by aptitude or ability.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ para 2.4, page 21
1.45 W hen changes38 are proposed to admission arrangements, all admission authorities must consult on their admission arrangements (including any supplementary information form) that will apply for admission applications the following school year. W here the admission arrangements have not changed from the previous year there is no requirement to consult, subject to the requirement that admission authorities must consult on their admission arrangements at least once every 7 years, even if there have been no changes during that period39.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ para 1.45, page 18
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In all subsequent years, they must set out by 31 August at the latest each year, on the school’s website how in-year applications will be dealt with from the 1 September until the following 31 August. They must set out how parents can apply for a school place, and, where they manage their own in-year admissions, provide a suitable application form for parents to complete (and a supplementary information form where necessary), and set out when parents will be notified of the outcome of their application and details about the right to appeal. If the admission authority is to be a part of the local authority’s in-year co-ordination scheme, it must provide information on where parents can find details of the relevant scheme.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ para 2.26, page 28
Questions schools ask
Do schools have to publish their supplementary information form?
Academies and maintained schools must. It only applies to schools that are their own admission authority: academies, foundation and voluntary-aided schools.
What can a supplementary information form ask?
Asks supplementary form questions only about oversubscription or selection.
When does the supplementary information form need to be published?
By 15 March each year. With the admission arrangements, for entry in September of the following year.
Where does the requirement for the supplementary information form come from?
It is set out in School Admissions Code.
Recent changes to the official guidance
The official sources for this requirement don't publish dated change notes. We check them for changes ourselves.
We last checked these sources on 21 September 2026.
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Official wording that does not apply to schools (1)
1.54 Local authorities must publish online – with hard copies available for those who do not have access to the internet – a composite prospectus for parents by 12 September49 in the offer year, which contains the admission arrangements and any supplementary information forms for each of the state- funded schools in the local authority area to which parents can apply (i.e. all schools including Academies).
Official sources last checked 21 September 2026 · register version 1.0.4