2024 - 2025 Registration for the Bermuda Public School System (BPSS)
Registration for Bright Start Programme, Preschool, Middle and Senior School will occur on:
Monday, 27 November – Friday, 15 December 2023
Procedures for Enrolment
- Parents are asked to review and complete an online registration form that will be made available on Monday, 27 November 2023.
- The manager or principal of a private school or tutorial site, must on request from the Minister of Education, submit the official transcript of any student who has applied to be admitted to a school in the BPSS.
Students Currently Enrolled in the BPSS
- Parents whose children are currently enrolled in P6 and M3 respectively will be provided a link to their child’s middle school (M1/Year 7) and senior (S1) school application on Monday, 27 November 2023.
- Completed applications must be submitted electronically.
Students Registering into the BPSS
• Online registration forms will be available using the following link https://bit.ly/Register-Student
• Online registration forms must be accompanied by a copy of a birth certificate and one of the following acceptable documents in the applying parent’s name to verify the child’s residential address:
- BELCO
- Lease
- Internet
- Bank statement
- Parents are asked to redact (i.e. black out) financial information, e.g. account balances.
- Evidence of a diagnosis of a disability/learning difference, e.g. i.e. ASD, dyslexia, etc.
Registration Period and Deadline
- Online registration forms for the 2024/2025 school year will be available on Monday, 27 November 2023.
• The deadline for receipt of an online registration form is Friday, 15 December 2023. All registration forms submitted after this date will be deemed late.
• Late registration forms will be considered after all on-time registration forms have been processed.
Appeals
• Parents who wish to appeal the denial of an admission to a school may submit an appeal.
- The link to the appeals form will be provided in the denial letter, along with the deadline to submit the appeal.
Conditions for Enrolment
Bright Start Programme (BSP)
1. Children must celebrate their third birthday between 1 January and 31 December 2024 inclusive.
2. Children must be resident in the catchment area for the preschool approved for an early enrolment programme (see section on Preschools below).
3. Children must be fully toilet trained.
4. There must be sufficient space to accommodate the child as per the permissible maximum enrolment.
5. Preference may be given to an older 3-year old (born in the early months of the calendar year over children born in the later months, whereby the children would still be a 2-year old in September 2024.
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Bright Start Programmes are offered at the following preschools: Lagoon Park Preschool Southampton Preschool Victor Scott Preschool St. David’s Preschool
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Preschool
1. Children must celebrate their fourth birthday between 1 January and 31 December 2024 inclusive.
2. Children must be resident in the same parish as the preschool to which the application is made.
- There must be sufficient space to accommodate the child as per the permissible maximum enrolment.
- Children who have limited nursery experience may be admitted first.
Preschools are:
St. George’s Preschool Residents of St. George’s parish
St. David’s Preschool Residents of St. David’s
Lyceum Preschool Residents of Hamilton parish
Devonshire Preschool Residents of Smith’s and Devonshire parish
Prospect Preschool Residents of Devonshire and Pembroke parish
Victor Scott Preschool Residents of Pembroke parish
St. Paul’s Preschool Residents of Paget parish
Warwick Preschool Residents of Warwick parish
Southampton Preschool Residents of Sandy’s parish who reside east of Somerset Bridge
Lagoon Park Preschool Residents who reside west of Somerset Bridge
Primary School
NOTE: Registration for primary schools will follow the completion of the ongoing rescoring process relating to parish primary schools which was announced in July 2023. Additional information will be provided later.
Middle School
1. If a student is already registered in the BPSS and is enrolled in a non-parish primary school, enrolment into a particular middle school is determined by the non-parish primary school attended at the time of registration; therefore a student must be enrolled in the middle school designated by the non-parish primary school attended unless s/he has moved prior to registration.
2. If a student is already registered in the BPSS and is enrolled in a parish primary school, enrolment may be to Year 7 of the same parish primary school or to the previously designated middle school, unless s/he has moved prior to registration.
3. If a student has moved prior to registration, s/he may be enrolled in the middle school or parish primary school closest to his or her residence.
4. There must be sufficient space to accommodate the child as per the permissible maximum enrolment.
5. Students registering into the BPSS must be enrolled in the middle school closest to their residence.
The designated middle schools and feeder non-parish primary schools are as follows:
SANDYS SECONDARY MIDDLE SCHOOL
Purvis Parish Primary
Port Royal Primary
Dalton E. Tucker Primary
West End Primary
Somerset Primary
DELLWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
Victor Scott Primary
Northlands Primary
West Pembroke Primary
Paget Primary
WHITNEY INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Harrington Sound Primary
Elliot Primary
Prospect Primary
Gilbert Institute
DELLWOOD or WHITNEY INSTITUTE
East End Primary
St. George's Preparatory
St. David's Primary
Francis Patton Primary
Senior School
- Parents may make an application for their child to be enrolled in a specific track within a Signature Learning Programme that is offered at a senior school.
- There must be sufficient space to accommodate the student in the first choice track. If the first choice track is oversubscribed, the successful applicants will be randomly selected. Unsuccessful first choice applicants will be considered for the second choice track.
- If the first choice track is oversubscribed, the second choice track will be considered for enrolment.. If the second choice track is oversubscribed, the successful applicants will be randomly selected. Unsuccessful second choice applicants will be considered for the third choice track.
- When the first and second choice track is oversubscribed, the third choice track will be considered for enrolment
- Where the number of registration applications for a particular track exceeds the permissible enrolment, the successful applicants may be randomly selected.
- If, after engaging in the Taster Programme to understand passions, talents and interests in order to be able to make a selection, a parent does not believe that there is a suitable track/Signature Learning Programme for their child, parents should check the “no suitable track/Signature Learning Programme” box on the form.
- Students who do not select a major/minor track will be randomly allocated a place at either of the senior chools to complete a non-signature learning programme track after all other placements have been made.
- Health & Social Care
SIGNATURE LEARNING PROGRAMMES
The Berkeley Institute offers the following Signature Learning Programmes:
- Finance & Insurance Services
CedarBridge Academy offers the following Signature Learning Programmes:
- Trades & Professions
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)