This applies to any requests made by parents to transfer their child from one school to another outside the annual admission round. If you would like to transfer school, please contact the Customer Contact Centre on 01685 725000.

In year school admissions relate to a child changing school outside of the usual transfer cycle. This section applies to admissions for mainstream schools and academies only. Applications for special schools need to be made through the Additional Learning Needs department for further advice please contact the Customer Contact Centre on 01685 725000.

Most commonly, this will happen where the family moves home and it is no longer practical for the child or children to travel to their current school daily. The house move may be in-county (moving from one Merthyr Tydfil address to another, and one Merthyr Tydfil school to another) or the family might be moving from elsewhere into Merthyr Tydfil.