Joining Birchwood
Here you will find lots of information about joining Birchwood Community High School.
Joining BCHS for the 26/27 academic year
Our next Open Evening is taking place on Tuesday 3rd October 2025
You can discover more about Birchwood High School at our annual Autumn Open Evening. Students from year 4, 5 and 6 and their families will have the opportunity to look around our school, meet our students, and speak with our experienced teaching staff as they make decisions about their next steps into secondary school.
Further details about our October 2025 Open Evening event will be available soon.
How to Apply
Applications for the September 2025 secondary school intake are now closed.
If you have any questions about the 2025 academic intake in relation to Birchwood Community High School, then please contact us directly by emailing: contactus@birchwoodhigh.org
Birchwood Community High School is an academy and sets its own admissions policy. We have appointed Warrington Borough Council to administer the admissions process and full information on how to apply is available on the council’s website: www.warrington.gov.uk/admissions
Information regarding in-year transfers can be found on Warrington Borough Council’s website: https://www.warrington.gov.uk/year-transfers
Admission appeals timetable information can be found on Warrington Borough Council’s website: https://www.warrington.gov.uk/school-admission-appeals
The closing date for applications for September 2025 was 31st October 2024.
POLICIES
Our admissions policy includes information on over-subscription criteria; pupil admission number and the in-year admissions process.
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