Applying for a Year 7 place at the College

You can download our Year 7 Admissions Policy here:

Your application MUST be made via the Local Authority in which you live. For most applicants this will be to Derby City Local Authority. The Derby City area falls entirely within either Catchment Areas 1 and 2 (see below for details). However, for those people who live within the parts of the Catchment Area 2 that fall within the Derbyshire Local Authority area, they should return their application form to that authority. Derby City Local Authority will be notified of those applicants by the Derbyshire Local Authority and Derby City Local Authority will then in turn notify the College about ALL the applicants for places for September 2021. The closing date for applications is 31 October 2020.

Take a look at our Admissions page

You can apply using the links or phone numbers below, based on the area in which you live.

I live in Derby

Apply online

Apply via phone: 01332 642727

Applications by phone takes around 10 minutes and you will need to know the name of the school you are applying to.

I live in Derbyshire

Apply online

Apply via phone: 01332 642727

The school has two catchment areas, we take 50% of our students from catchment area 1 and 50% of our students from catchment area 2. Catchment area 1 covers the electoral wards of Abbey, Derwent, Arboretum, Normanton and Sinfin. Catchment area 2 covers an area measuring 4.75 miles in radius from the school and includes the 12 remaining wards in Derby City and some parts of Derbyshire. If you are not sure if you live in the schools catchment area please email [email protected]

The schools oversubscription criteria does give priority to specific groups of students, more information on this can be found on page 6 of our Admission Policy. You can download this below. Priority is given to Looked After Children and those recently adopted from care, students with an Education Health and Care Plan and siblings of an existing student who will be in Years 8-11 in the academic year 2021/22.

Students do not have to pass a test to gain a place at Landau Forte College Derby we are not a selective school. We pride ourselves on our inclusive ethos. All students who select the College as one of their top three preference schools will be invited to the school in November to sit a test. The test helps us ensure we have a comprehensive intake of students, covering all academic abilities. We split the cohort into nine stanines of ability and select a specific number of students in each stanine, to ensure that our intake is truly comprehensive. Your child does not need to revise for the test or participate in extra tutoring to prepare for the test. The test simply helps us ensure we select students from all ability groups.

The local authority you live in will make you aware of which secondary school your child has been allocated on National Offer Day, 1 March 2021.

You can lodge an admissions appeal. You can contact the school, on or after 1 March 2021 to find out more about this process.