Applying for Reception Sept 2025
How to Apply for a September 2025 Reception Place
If you are applying for a reception place for September 2025, all applications are made in advance. The national closing date is 15 January 2025. Offers are made by the Local Authority on national offer day (16 April 2025).
Our Published Admission Number (PAN) is 60 and this is the number of places the school can admit in reception in 2025.
You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins. If this is Leeds, go to www.leeds.gov.uk/apply. The website is a composite prospectus for all Leeds schools, and this includes:
You can also watch the Leeds City Council school admissions video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRU1SrS7iJE for more information.
You can also see information about our school, including previous admission data, on our school page on the Leeds City Council’s website here.
- all the steps you need to go through to make an application
- the key dates
- a search tool to see if your home address gives any higher priority for admission to any school(s)
- an explanation about how places are offered if there are more applications than spaces (oversubscribed)
- the online application portal - apply online to be sent your offer day letter by email
- a summary of each school’s individual admission policy criteria
- data about who got a place in the last 3 years - this will help you work out if there is a reasonable chance of your child qualifying for a place
- information about applying under a specific admission criteria (such as your child being previously looked after). It is important to ensure you submit all supporting evidence by the deadline to show you meet any such criteria
Application timetable - The below timetable applies to applications made to Leeds City Council. If you apply to another local authority, they may have different dates
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Children born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 are due to start reception in September 2025 |
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1 November 2024 |
Applications open. You can apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk/apply
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15 January 2025 |
National deadline for applying for reception 2025 places
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12 February 2025 |
Deadline for making changes that will be considered as being on-time for our school.
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28 February 2025 |
Final date Leeds City Council uses for adding late applications or receiving change of address evidence. Any new applications received after this date will not be offered a school place until the first round of reallocations in May |
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16 April 2025 |
National offer day
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30 April 2025 |
Deadline for
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20 May 2025 |
Any reception appeal submitted by this date will be heard before the summer holidays start.
Leeds City Council arranges our appeals. |
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May to end of August 2025 |
Any available places automatically allocated from waiting lists by the local authority
Lower preference school offers are also withdrawn automatically (even if accepted) |
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June to July 2025 |
Appeals heard by independent appeal panels |
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September 2025 |
Start primary school |