High School Admissions Information for September 2025 Entry
High School Applications for Year 7 Entry September 2025
The closing date for admissions is 31st October 2024. (Please note that the College is closed for half term Thursday 24th October – Friday 1st November).
To apply for a place for year 7 entry in 2025 at St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School you must:
- Complete a Common Application Form (CAF). This is available on your local council’s website.
- Read the High School Entry Notes 2025-26 below
- Read the High School Admissions Policy 2025-26 below
- Complete the online High School Supplementary Information Form below. Please note, there is no need to print this as we are automatically notified of your application.
- Email or post a copy of your child’s Baptismal certificate to ‘Admissions’ at SRRCC (if applicable)
- Email or post a Certificate of Catholic Practice signed and stamped by your Parish Priest to ‘Admissions’ at SRRCC (if applicable).
- Applications from other Christian denominations or faiths must email or post a letter of support from their Minister of religion or faith leader.
Please send your certificates/letter of support via email to: admissions@srrcc.org.uk or by post to ‘Admissions’, St Richard Reynolds Catholic College, Clifden Road, Twickenham, TW1 4LT.
An email receipt to confirm your application will be sent from admissions@srrcc.org.uk once we receive your Supplementary Information Form and supporting documents.
If you do not provide the information required in the Supplementary Information Form, or submit supporting documentation to the College, by the closing date, your child may not be placed in the appropriate faith category which is likely to affect your child’s chance of being offered a place.
Download blank Certificate of Catholic Practice from the Westminster Diocese website HERE
Download the Diocesan Guidance for clergy about the Certificate of Catholic Practice HERE
NB. You must also complete and return a Common Application Form (CAF) to your home local authority online or, by post or in person.
Should you require a paper version of the Supplementary Information Form, please contact admissions@srrcc.org.uk.
Parish boundary maps to be applied to those applying under criteria 3a and 3b:
For the Southwark parishes of Our Lady of Loreto and St Winefride, Kew Gardens; Our Lady Queen of Peace, East Sheen; St Elizabeth of Portugal, Richmond; St Mary Magdalen, Mortlake; St Osmund, Barnes; and St Thomas Aquinas, Ham; view the boundary map through this link:
For the named parishes in the Diocese of Westminster, Click on the parish name to view the boundary maps:
In Year applications
You may apply for a place in any year at the High School outside of the usual Year 7 application process for those transferring from primary schools, although we are generally oversubscribed in every year group. You should apply directly to the College using the online application form below, having first applied to Richmond Borough here: Richmond Secondary schools in-year application 2024/25. Places may become available as families move from the area or choose another school. Places, if available, will be allocated using the published admissions policy (see above) If you require any advice, please contact admissions@srrcc.org.uk.
All children will remain on the waiting list until the end of the academic year in which they made the in-year application. If they wish to continue on the waiting list for the next academic year, it is the parent/guardian’s responsibility to re-apply to both the Borough and the College.
For sixth form (Years 12 and 13) waiting lists, email sixthformadmissions@srrcc.org.uk
Admissions data: how places were offered in previous years
| How places were offered: | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| Total number of applications | 1010 | 995 | 974 |
| Catholic looked after and previously looked after children (criterion i) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Baptised Catholic children | 173 | 180 | 173 |
| Looked after and previously looked children (criterion iii) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Other children (criterion iv) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pupils with a statement/EHCP | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Number of appeals heard | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Number of successful appeals | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Distance: random allocation within criterion (ii) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Consultation on High School Admissions Policy for September 2026/27
The Governing Body of St Richard Reynolds Catholic College is consulting on a small change to its admissions arrangements for 2026/27 for St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School. Governors propose extending the definition of a sibling applicant to include those having a sibling currently attending the school and a sibling who formerly attended the school.
The consultation will run from 17th December 2024 to 28th January 2025. If you have any comments on the proposed arrangements, please submit them by email to consultation@srrcc.org.uk or in writing to: The Clerk to the Governing Body, St Richard Reynolds Catholic College, Clifden Road, Twickenham TW1 4LT