How to apply for a September 2026 reception place
We are an academy and the admission authority is St Greogry the Great Academy Trust.
The school’s admission authority sets the admission policy every year. You can read our school’s admission polices below:
- In-year applications to start at our school between September 2025 and July 2026 – read our 2025/26 policy
- Applications for reception places in September 2026 – read our 2026/27 policy
- Applications for reception places in September 2027 – read our 2027/28 policy (published here by March 2026.
If you are applying for a reception place for September 2026, all applications are made in advance. The national closing date is 15 January 2026. Offers are made by the Local Authority on national offer day (16 April 2026).
Our Published Admission Number (PAN) is 30 and this is the number of places the school can admit in reception in 2026.
You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins. If this is Leeds, go to www.leeds.gov.uk/apply. The LA website is a composite prospectus for all Leeds schools and includes information about:
- 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.
You will need to make an application to the local authority asking for a place at our school. You do this online at the above link. If you do not send the application to the local authority, you will not have made a valid application for a place at our school.
If you are applying for admission under our faith criteria, you will also complete our online Supplementary Information Form (SIF), available here.
Previous admission data is on our school page on the Leeds City Council’s website here: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/schools-and-education/schools/sacred-heart-catholic-primary-school
Please watch the Leeds City Council school admissions video below for more information.
Application timetable
The below timetable applies to applications made to Leeds City Council for children born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022 are due to start reception in September 2026. If you apply to another local authority, they may have different dates.
| 1 November 2025 | Applications open. You can apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk/apply |
| 15 January 2026 | National deadline for applying for Reception 2026 places |
| 28 February 2026 | Final date Leeds City Council uses for adding late applications or receiving change of address evidence. Any new applications received by Leeds City Council after this date will not be offered a school place until the first round of reallocations in May |
| 16 April 2026 |
Deadline for:
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| 15 May 2026 |
All reception appeals received by this date will be heard before the summer holiday start. Leeds City Council arranges our appeals. |
| May to end of August 2026 |
Any available places automatically allocated from waiting lists by the local authority. Lower preference school offers are also withdrawn automatically (even if accepted). |
| June to July 2026 | Appeals heard by independent appeal panels |
| September 2026 | Start primary school |
