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How to apply for a place in a
Leeds primary school
A summary of the information included in the booklet ‘Starting primary
school in Leeds – A guide for parents and carers 2013 to 2014’
If you live in Leeds (pay Leeds Council Tax) and have an email address you can apply
online at www.leeds.gov.uk and there is no need to fill in the common preference form.
Our website has lots of useful information. You can view or download the booklet
‘Starting primary school in Leeds – a guide for parents and carers’, there are
details of schools that were oversubscribed last year, information on the school
transport policy and details of all primary schools.
Remember to apply by 15 January 2013
This summary pamphlet is to help you apply for a place at any Leeds school.
It contains the Council admission policy for community and voluntary-controlled schools.
It does not show the policies for voluntary-aided (church) or foundation schools or
Academies, where governors make decisions on who is offered a school place, you
can look at these on our website or contact the schools direct for a copy. We have
also included frequently asked questions to help you make the best use of your five
preferences. There are details about co-ordinated admission arrangements, what to do
if you move house and how we deal with brothers and sisters.
If you apply online you will receive an acknowledgement email.
Once we receive your preferences you will not hear from us until we send you
an offer letter by second class post or email on 16 April 2013. We regret that we
cannot tell you your offer over the phone. In our letter we will tell you what to do if
you are not happy with the school we have offered, for example there is a waiting list
and appeal process.
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How
to apply for a place in a Leeds primary school
Apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk1
Deadline -15 January 2013
The admissions policy for Leeds
community and voluntary-controlled
schools for entry in September 2013
The Director of Children’s Services
makes all offers of a school place
on behalf of Leeds City Council,
which is the admissions authority.
Headteachers or school-based staff
are not authorised to offer a child a
place.
Children with a statement of special
educational needs will be admitted to
the school named on their statement.
We will offer places to children in the
following order of priority.
Priority 1
Priority 4
We will give priority to parents who
put their nearest school (see note 6).
This does not include any voluntaryaided schools which act as their own
admission authorities.
If we have more applications than
there are places, we will offer places
first to children living nearest to the
school (measured in a straight line)
(see note 5).
Priority 5
a Children in public care or fostered
under an arrangement made by the
local authority (see note 2).
We will give priority to parents who
choose a Leeds school, which is
not the one nearest to their home
address (see note 6).
b Pupils without a statement but
who have Special Educational Needs,
or with exceptional medical or
mobility needs, that can only be met
at a specific school (See note 3).
If we have more applications than
there are places, we will offer places
first to children living nearest to the
school (measured in a straight line)
(see note 5).
Priority 2
Note 1
Children with older brothers or
sisters who will be at school at the
start of the academic year and are
living at the same address (see note
4). This priority will not apply where
the older sibling joined the sixth form
from a different school.
If we cannot offer parents or carers
a place for their child at any school
they put on their preference form,
we will offer their child a place at
the nearest school that has places
available when we make the offer
(this may include voluntary aided
and foundation schools or academies
where their governing bodies have
given us permission to do so).
Priority 3
Where children attend the following
infant school they will have priority
for the linked junior school:
Farsley Westroyd Infant linked to
Farsley Springbank Junior
Guiseley Infant linked to St Oswald’s
Junior
Rothwell Haigh Road Infant linked to
Rothwell Victoria Junior
Yeadon Westfield Infant linked to
Yeadon Westfield Junior
Should there be more children than
places available priority 4 will be used
as a tie break.
Note 2
Children who have been adopted
from local authority care, children
with a residency order and those
with special guardianship immediately
following being Looked After will all
be included within the higher priority
for looked-after children (priority 1a).
Note 3
Applications in this category must
be supported by a statement in
writing from a doctor or other
relevant professional. This is
necessary because you will be
asking the Authority to assess
your child as having a stronger
case than other children. Each
case will be considered on its
merits in consultation with the
school concerned. To receive this
assistance you must contact the SEN
Assessment and Provision Service on
0113 3951100.
Note 4
For these purposes, brothers and
sisters must be living at the same
address as your child. Siblings refer
to brother or sister, half brother or
sister, adopted brother or sister, step
brother or sister, foster brother or
sister. The definition does not include
cousins or other family members
sharing a house.
Note 5
In Leeds we use a straight-line
distance system.
We use a national computer system
to run our school-admission system.
As part of this system there is a
program that measures the ‘straightline’ distance from the centre of the
main school building to your home
address. The point we measure to at
your home address is determined by
the Royal Mail Postcode Address File.
This information provides us with
coordinates for every dwelling. If we
are not able to match your address
with the Postcode Address File
then we will use the centre of your
dwelling.
In the unlikely event there are
insufficient places for two (or more)
pupils living in the same building (e.g.
flats) or otherwise equidistant from
the school, then any final place will
be allocated by the drawing of lots.
Note 6
If you live in Leeds
If you live in Leeds and your nearest
school is a school in another local
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authority, then your nearest Leeds
school by straight-line distance will
be your nearest eligible school. You
can apply for any school but the
nearest priority only applies to Leeds
schools.
If you don’t live in Leeds
If you live in another local authority
and the nearest school to your
home in a straight line is a Leeds
community, voluntary-controlled or
foundation school, or academy we
will give you the relevant priority
under our admissions policy.
If you live in another local authority
and the nearest school to your
home, by straight line, is a school not
in Leeds you are still able to apply for
a Leeds School but priority 4 will not
apply.
Nearest School
When we say the ‘nearest’ school, we
do not include voluntary-aided (faith
based) schools. This is because they
apply their own admissions policies
and, if they are oversubscribed, they
mainly offer places based on the
religion practised by the child and
family.
Address
For admission purposes, the home
address is where the child usually
lives with their parent or carer.
You must not give the address
of a childminder or relative. We
will investigate any queries about
addresses and, depending on what
we find; we may change the school
we offer your child. When we make
an offer, we assume your address
will be the same in the following
September as we have on record. If
you plan to move house, you must
still give your current address. If you
move house after the deadline of 31
October 2012 for Secondary places
or 15 January 2013 for Primary and
Junior places, you must tell us your
new address as we may have to offer
your child a place at another school.
Late Applications
If you return the preference form
after the deadline we cannot
guarantee to consider your
preferences at the same time
as those received on time. Any
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Apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk
secondary applications returned
after 10 December 2012, or primary
applications returned after 24
February 2013 will only be dealt
with once all other preferences have
been considered, unless there are
significant and exceptional reasons.
Late applications will be considered
before placements are made (where
no preference could be met).
Accepting Offers
Parents will be asked to accept the
offer of a school place. This will not
affect their position on any waiting
list for a higher preference, or their
right to appeal. Parents who do not
wish to accept the offer, or do not
accept the offer within a reasonable
time, may have the place withdrawn.
Waiting List
After offers have been made on 1st
March 2013 for Secondary and 16th
April 2013 for Primary and Junior,
parents can ask to go on the waiting
list for any school. The waiting list
will be held in criteria order of the
admission policy and will close on 22
July 2014. Waiting lists will be held
in each year group for applications
outside of the normal admission
round closing on 22 July 2014.
Nursery
A place in a nursery does not offer
any priority or guarantee a place in
the school. Parents must apply for
a place if they want their child to
transfer to the reception class.
Temporary School Site
If a school has to move to a
temporary site for any reason, such
as the building being damaged by
a fire, we will base our distance
measurements on the school’s
permanent site.
Starting Reception Age
We normally only allow children
to start primary school in the
appropriate age range. You must
ensure your child receives an
appropriate full time education from
the term following their fifth birthday.
Almost all children start school in
Leeds in the September following
their fourth birthday. However,
parents can request that the start
date for their child is deferred until
later in the school year in the case of
children who have not reached their
5th birthday. You can also request
that your child attends part-time until
he/she reaches compulsory school
age. If you want a later start date
within the academic year you should
discuss this with the school. If your
child is born in the summer term
and you wish to defer entry until the
next academic year, unless you have
exceptional reasons, you will need
to apply for a place in year 1. You
should contact us for further advice.
Applications outside the
normal admission round
Applications outside the normal
admission round should be made on
Leeds’ In-year Common Preference
Form. From September 2013 you
return the form directly to your
preferred school. If the school is full
you will be offered a right of appeal.
Where no house move has taken
place you will only be offered a place
to start at the beginning of the next
term.
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Frequently asked questions
If my child is in the nursery will
I automatically get a place at the
primary school it is attached to?
No, you must apply for a place at
the primary school online or using a
common preference form.
If you do not apply you may not be
offered any school.
There is no priority for a primary
school just because a child goes to
the nursery.
My child’s older brother or sister
already goes to this primary school
so do I have to apply?
Yes, you must apply online or on the
common preference form. Applying
online is the quickest, easiest and
safest way to apply. Our online
system www.leeds.gov.uk opens on 1
August 2012.
For entry to reception or to transfer
to junior or secondary school we will
give priority to brothers and sisters
as long as:
• we get your application on time;
• any older children will still be
at the school when the younger
child starts, and you name the older
children on the form with their date
of birth; and
• all the children are living in the
same house.
How can I make sure my application
arrives on time?
There are instances every year
where parents say that they posted
their preference forms but we have
not received them.
To reduce the risk of any forms going
astray we would encourage you to:
• apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk
an email is sent to confirm that your
preferences have been submitted.
This is the quickest, easiest and safest
way to apply;
• hand the form into the Primary
school where it will be date stamped
and forwarded onto Admissions –
schools will keep a record of the
completed forms received;
• post the form to Admissions
recorded delivery;
• call into the office and you will be
given a receipt;
Which address can I use?
You must use your home address
when applying. You can not
use another address such as a
childminder's or relative's address.
If we find that you have supplied
us with false information, we will
withdraw the offer of a school place.
It is an offence under the Fraud Act
2006 to use a false address.
My neighbour’s child got a place last
year in the school that I want so will
my child get a place there this year?
Not neccessarily. The places we offer
depend on the number of people
who apply for a particular school and,
among other things, where they live.
This will change each year. There are
more children being born in Leeds
needing school places.
You should always include your
nearest school as one of your
preferences.
as one of your five preferences.
Do you allocate places in date of
receipt order? Is it first come, first
served?
No. Everyone who applies by the
deadline is considered together.
Do I have to use all five
preferences?
No. The law states we must offer
you the highest preference that we
can under the admissions policy and
so we will see if we can offer any of
your preferences. If we are unable
to offer you a place at any of your
preferences we will make your child
an alternative offer, which will be the
nearest school that still has available
places after the rest of the allocation
has been completed.
It is vital that you place your
preferences in the order you
would like your child to attend. All
the preferences you make should
be schools that you would send
your child to. Submitting only one
preference does not give you a
higher priority for that school.
If I just put one school down on the
form will it help my appeal?
No, our most important piece of
advice is for you to include your
nearest school as one of your
preferences.
If you do not follow this advice your
child may be allocated a place out
of your local area. This will not help
your appeal as the panel will know
that you did not follow our advice.
If I don’t put down my nearest
school will you give it to me anyway?
No, we consider all preferences
equally.
If you don’t put your nearest school
down it may fill up with children that
asked for it and you risk being sent
to a school that is out of your area.
If I put my nearest school down on
the form will I definitely get it?
No, unfortunately some schools are
very popular and fill before all the
nearest families can be offered a
place. This is why we recommend
that you include your nearest school
You must use your home address
on your application. Do not use a
childminder’s or relative’s address,
or a false address or the address
you plan to move to on your
application. If we find that you
have supplied false information,
we will withdraw the offer of a
school place. This may mean that
your child is offered a place at a
school outside your local area as
nearer schools may be full by then.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk
General information
Applying online from 1 November
2012.
You can apply online at www.leeds.
gov.uk. You must live in Leeds and
have an email address to apply online
so that we can reply to you. We will
send you an email on 16 April 2013
telling you which school you have
been offered.
Priority for brothers and sisters will
be given as long as:
• You apply online on time or
• we receive your preference form
on time; and
• your older child will still be at the
school when your younger child
starts and is named when you
apply, with the correct date of
birth; and
• the children concerned all live in
the same house.
You can get information about
your nearest school to your home
address by phoning the Admissions
Team on 0113 224 4414 or you can
email education.annual.cycle@
leeds.gov.uk. The nearest school is
important because of the way our
admission policy works.
You must keep us informed on any
move to a new address, even after
you have made your preferences.
We may need to change the school
we offer you. We will require proof
of your new address, for example
if you are renting we may need
to see the rental agreement, final
utility bills from your previous
address and Council Tax details.
If you are buying a property we
may need to see confirmation that
the sale has been completed, final
utility bills and Council Tax details.
We reserve the right to ask for
further evidence in some cases.
If you are happy with the school
you are offered you will be asked
to accept the offer by completing
the form at the bottom of the offer
letter. If you do not email or write to
us to accept the offer the place will
be withdrawn and offered to another
child. It is very important that you
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let us know you want to keep the
offer even if you want to appeal for
another school.
If we cannot give you the school
you want, you can ask to be placed
on the school waiting list and
appeal against our decision to an
independent appeal panel. You will
have 20 days to send us the appeal
form. If you return the form after
the 20 day deadline we may not
be able to hear your appeal before
the end of the summer term.
You can appeal for more than
one school at the same time. You
should not wait for the result of
an appeal for one school before
deciding to appeal for another.
After we send offer emails and
letters on 16 April, we sometimes
receive information from parents and
schools telling us that children have
accepted a place in a private school
or have moved away. Successful
appeals at one school can also lead
to spaces becoming available at other
schools.
Whenever that happens we will fill
those vacant places from the waiting
list in line with our admissions policy.
It is important to realise that children
can move up and down the waiting
list. It is not when you contact us that
is important but where you stand in
relation to the admissions policy.
Vacancies will continue to be offered
in this way up until 22 July 2014. If
at any stage during the process you
are happy with the offer of a school
you must contact us to cancel the
schools on the waiting list that are
still outstanding. If you do not and a
place becomes available at a higher
preference school that you no longer
require we will change
the offer. We may also fill the place
that your child has vacated which
may make it impossible to reverse
the allocation.
How can I find out more about a
particular school?
Each school has its own prospectus
which sets out how it is organised
and its curriculum, statement of
ethos, values and aims. You can get
a free copy from the school itself
and it will help you to make the best
decision for your child.
You can look at our website and
follow the direct links to each
school’s web pages. You can also go
to each school’s open event.
You can look at the Ofsted reports
at www.ofsted.gov.uk. They are also
available from main libraries. You can
also find the reports on our website
at www.leeds.gov.uk. Other websites
you may find helpful are the Advisory
Centre for Education’s website
at www.ace-ed.org.uk and the
Department for Education website at
www.education.gov.uk.
What should I do if my child may
need to go to a special school?
Before we will consider offering your
child a place in a special school, the
local authority will need to carry out
a ‘statutory assessment’. This is an
assessment of your child’s educational
needs and will involve professionals
from education, health and social
services. This assessment means that
everyone involved with your child can
better understand the difficulties they
may have and plan what particular
help they need. All of this information
is summed up in the statement of
special educational needs.
The Parent Partnership Service
offers independent advice and
support to parents and carers whose
children have a special need that may
affect their education. To talk to one
of the staff, and use the wide range
of services available, please phone
the helpline during office hours.
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Parent Partnership Service
Phone: 0113 395 1200 (helpline) or
0113 395 1222 (general enquiries).
Or, you can phone a national parent
network called Network 81 on 0845
077 4055 (10am to 1pm Monday
to Friday).
If you feel your child is not making
enough progress and needs extra
support, please contact:
SEN Assessment and Provision
Service
Integrated Children’s Services
Adams Court
Kildare Terrace
Whitehall Road
Leeds
LS12 1DB
Phone: 0113 395 1030
They can give you advice about all
areas of special education.
School clothing and meals
Most schools have rules about what
the pupils can and cannot wear (a
dress code). Other schools will have
a uniform that all pupils must wear.
You should accept the dress code or
uniform when deciding on a school.
Meals are provided in all Leeds
primary schools, and there are
facilities for pupils to eat packed
lunches brought from home. If you
have any questions about school
meals, contact the school or ask at
the open event.
You are entitled to free school meals
for your child, and help with buying
school clothing, if you get:
•Income Support;
•Jobseeker’s Allowance
(income based); or
•Child Tax Credit.
To apply for free school meals and
help with buying school clothing,
please contact:
The Department of Finance
Leeds Benefit Service
Selectapost 15
2 Great George Street
Leeds
LS2 8BA
Phone: 0113 222 4404
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Charging for school activities
You can get details of schools’ policies
for charging for certain school
activities from the schools themselves
or their websites.
Sustainable Travel
The Education and Inspections
Act 2006 section 508A places a
statutory duty on all local authorities
to promote sustainable travel in
schools. Travelling to school by
car raises issues of air quality, road
safety and the long term decline in
children’s levels of physical exercise.
Perhaps more important than these
direct impacts are the effects that
car dependency has on health and
independence of young people and
their future views of later life travel
behaviour.
Details of sustainable travel and
transport facilities available in schools
have been compiled in order to assist
parents and carers when making
their choice of school.
Where can I get more information
about school transport?
You can read the full home-toschool policy by looking at Metro’s
website at www.generationm.co.uk.
You can also phone Leeds Education
Transport Assessment Team on 0113
3481121.
As well as public transport, there
are school buses provided especially
for certain schools. You can get
information about these services
from the school and from www.
generationm.co.uk.
Filling in the preferences
Against each school that you ask
for on the preference form is a box
with space to write a four figure
school code. The codes for all Leeds
schools are given at the back of this
pamphlet. If you apply online do not
fill in the form.
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Apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk
School codes
S Supplementary Information Form (SIF) required
Codes for all community and Church of England
primary schools
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3030 Aberford Church of England Primary School, School Lane LS25 3BU
2416 Adel Primary School, Tile Lane LS16 8DY
3902Adel St John The Baptist Church of England
(Aided) Primary School, Long Causeway LS16 8EX S
3909 All Saints’ Church of England Primary School,
Cross Aysgarth Mount LS9 9AD S
3931 Allerton Church of England Primary School, Lingfield Approach LS17 7HL S
2436 Alwoodley Primary School, Cramer Rise
LS17 5HX
2484 Armley Primary School,
Salisbury Terrace LS12 2AY
2401 Ashfield Primary School, Weston Lane LS21 2DF
2512 Asquith Primary School, Horsfall Street LS27 9QY
B
2425 Bankside Primary School, Shepherds Lane,
LS8 5AW
2385 Bardsey Primary School, Woodacre Lane
LS17 9DG
3033 Barwick in Elmet Church of England Primary School, Chapel Lane LS15 4HL
2444 Beechwood Primary School, Kentmere Avenue LS14 6QB
2407 Beecroft Primary School, Eden Way LS4 2TF
3913Beeston Hill St Luke’s Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Beeston Road LS11 8ND S
2470 Beeston Primary School, Town Street LS11 8PN
2369 Birchfield Primary School, Birchfield Avenue
LS27 7HU
3918 Blackgates Primary School, Smithy Lane
WF3 1QQ
2408 Blenheim Primary School, Lofthouse Place
LS2 9EX
2433 Bracken Edge Primary School, Newton Garth LS7 4HE
2329 Bramham Primary School, Clifford Road
LS23 6JQ
2406 Bramhope Primary School, Tredgold Crescent LS16 9BR
2485 Bramley Primary School, Fairfield Hill LS13 3DP
3054Bramley St Peter’s (VC) Church of England
Primary School, Hough Lane LS13 3NE S
2398 Broadgate Primary School, North Broadgate Lane LS18 5AF
2445 Brownhill Primary School, Torre Drive LS9 7DH
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2409 Brudenell Primary School, Welton Place
LS6 1EW
3052Burley St Matthias Church of England Primary
School, Burley Road LS4 2HY
C
3046 Calverley Church of England Primary School, Town Gate LS28 5NF
2301 Calverley Parkside Primary School, Victoria
Street LS28 5PQ
2308 Carlton Primary School, New Road WF3 3RE
4041 Carr Manor Community School (formerly Carr Manor High School), Carr Manor Road LS17 5DJ
2437 Carr Manor Primary School, Carr Manor Road LS17 5DJ
2486 Castleton Primary School, Green Lane LS12 1JZ
2427 Chapel Allerton Primary School, Harrogate Road LS7 3PD
3055Christ Church Upper Armley Church of England
Primary School, Theaker Lane LS12 3NU
2286 Churwell Primary School, Westwood Side
S
LS27 9HR
2482 Clapgate Primary School, Cranmore Drive
LS10 4AW
2487 Cobden Primary School, Cobden Road
LS12 5LA
3357Collingham Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of
England (Aided) Primary School, Linton Road
LS22 5BS 3903Cookridge Holy Trinity Church of England
(Aided) Primary School, Green Lane LS16 7EZ S
2418 Cookridge Primary School, Tinshill Drive
LS16 7DH
2472 Cottingley Primary School, Dulverton Grove LS11 0HU
2479 Park View Primary Academy (formerly Cross Flatts Park Primary School), Harlech Road LS11 7DG
2458 Cross Gates Primary School, Poole Crescent LS15 7NB
2347 Crossley Street Primary School, Crossley Street LS22 6RT
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2400
3921
Deighton Gates Primary School, Deighton Road LS22 7XL
Drighlington Primary School, Moorland Road BD11 1JY E
2504 East Ardsley Primary School, Fall Lane WF3 2BA
2446 Ebor Gardens Primary School, Rigton Drive
LS9 7PY
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2505 Farsley Farfield Primary School, Cote Lane
LS28 5ED
2338 Farsley Springbank Junior School, Wesley Street LS28 5LE
2302 Farsley Westroyd Infant School, Frances Street LS28 5BH
2469 Fieldhead Carr Primary School, Naburn Approach LS14 2EG
2492 Five Lanes Primary School, Stradbroke Way
LS12 4NB
3926 Fountain Primary School, Fountain Street
LS27 0AW
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2336
2428
2447
3925
2499
2473
2303
2448
2270
Gildersome Primary School, Town Street
LS27 7AB
Gledhow Primary School, Lidgett Lane LS8 1PL
Grange Farm Primary School, Bancroft Rise
LS14 1AX
Great Preston Church of England Primary School, Preston Lane LS26 8AR
Greenhill Primary School, Gamble Hill Drive LS13 4JJ
Greenmount Primary School, Lodge Lane
LS11 6BA
Greenside Primary School, South Parade
LS28 8NZ
Grimes Dyke Primary School, Stanks Drive
LS14 5BY
Guiseley Infant & Nursery School, Oxford Road LS20 9DA
H
2449 Harehills Primary School, Darfield Road
LS8 5DQ
3037 Harewood Church of England Primary School,
Harrogate Road LS17 9LH
3351Hawksworth Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Main Street LS20 8NX S
2417 Hawksworth Wood Primary School, Cragside Walk LS5 3QB
2438 Highfield Primary School, Sandringham Green LS17 8DJ
2292 Hill Top Primary School, Batley Road WF3 1HD
2435 Hillcrest Community Primary School, Cowper Street LS7 4DR
3922 Hollybush Primary School, Broad Lane LS13 2JJ
2283
2363
3038
2334
2450
2474
Horsforth Featherbank Primary School, Featherbank Avenue LS18 4QP
Horsforth Newlaithes Primary School, Victoria Crescent LS18 4PT
Horsforth St Margaret’s Church of England School,
Town Street LS18 5BL
Horsforth West End Primary School, West End Lane LS18 5JP
Hovingham Primary School, Hovingham
Avenue LS8 3QY
Hunslet Carr Primary School, Woodhouse Hill Road LS10 2DN
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2475 Hunslet Moor Primary School, Fairford Avenue LS11 5EL
3914Hunslet St Mary’s Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Church Street LS10 2QY S
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2476
2420
2410
Ingram Road Primary School, Brown Lane East LS11 9LA
Ireland Wood Primary School, Raynel Gardens LS16 6BW
Iveson Primary School, Iveson Rise LS16 6LW
K
2434 Kerr Mackie Primary School, Gledhow Lane
LS8 1NE
3904Kirkstall St Stephen’s Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Morris Lane LS5 3JD S
2411 Kirkstall Valley Primary School, Argie Road LS4 2QZ
L
3356Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England
(Aided) Primary School, Thorp Arch, Dowkell
Lane LS23 7AQ S
2497 Lawns Park Primary School, Chapel Lane
LS12 5EX
5200Ledston Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of
England (Aided) Primary School, Green Lane
WF10 2BD
2412Little London Community Primary School,
Meanwood Street LS7 1SR
2481 Low Road Primary School, Belinda Street
LS10 2PS
2496 Lower Wortley Primary School, Lower Wortley Road LS12 4PX
2365 Lowtown Primary School, Kent Road LS28 9BB
M
2464 Manston Primary School, Dennil Road LS15 8SD
3910Manston St James’ Church of England (Aided)
Primary Academy, Sandbed Lane LS15 8JH S
3907Meanwood Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Green Road LS6 4LD S
3916 Methley Primary School, Savile Road LS26 9HT
3040 Micklefield Church of England Primary School, Great North Road LS25 4AQ
3053Middleton St Mary’s Church of England
Primary School, Moor Flatts Road LS10 3SW
3930 Mill Field Primary School, Potternewton Mount LS7 2DR
2439 Moor Allerton Hall Primary School, Lidgett Lane LS17 6QP
2440 Moortown Primary School, Shadwell Lane
LS17 6DR
2321 Morley Newlands Primary School, Wide Lane LS27 8PG
2382 Morley Victoria Primary School, Victoria Road LS27 9NW
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3927 New Bewerley Community School, Bismarck Drive LS11 6TB
O
2459
2513
2405
2327
Oakwood Primary School, North Farm Road LS8 3LZ
Otley All Saints Church of England Primary School,
Lisker Drive LS21 1DF
Otley The Whartons Primary School, The Whartons LS21 2BS
Oulton Primary School, Green Lea LS26 8NT
P
2488
2467
3051
2389
2331
2339
2326
3920
Park Spring Primary School, Wellstone Avenue LS13 4EH
Parklands Primary School, Dufton Approach LS14 6ED
Pool Church of England Primary School, Arthington Lane LS21 1LG
Primrose Lane Primary School, Primrose Lane LS23 6DX
Pudsey Bolton Royd Primary School, Moorland Grove LS28 8EP
Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School, Primrose Hill LS28 6AB
Pudsey Tyersal Primary School, Tyersal Walk
BD4 8ER
Pudsey Waterloo Primary School,Victoria Road LS28 7SR
Q
2413
2356
Quarry Mount Primary School, Pennington Street LS6 2JP
Queensway Primary School, Coppice Wood Avenue LS19 7LF
R
2271 Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School, New Road Side LS19 6DD
3031Rawdon St Peter’s Church of England
Primary School, Town Street LS19 6PP
2489 Raynville Primary School, Cross Aston Grove LS13 2TQ
2451 Richmond Hill Primary School, Clark Crescent LS9 8QF
2309 Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds Road
WF3 3BG
2415 Rosebank Primary School, Burley Road LS3 1JP
3043 Rothwell Church of England Primary School,
Queensway LS26 0NB
2313 Rothwell Haigh Road Infant School, Haigh Road LS26 0NQ
2506 Rothwell Primary School, Carlton Lane LS26 0DJ
2342 Rothwell Victoria Junior School, Cornwall Crescent LS26 0RA
4063Roundhay School – All through education from 4
to 18, Elmete Lane LS8 2LG
Summary
3329Roundhay St John’s Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, 20 North Lane LS8 2QJ S
2002 Rufford Park Primary School, Rufford Avenue LS19 7QR
2501 Ryecroft Primary School, Stonebridge Grove LS12 5AW
S
2275 Scholes (Elmet) Primary School, Station Road LS15 4BJ
2452 Seacroft Grange Primary School, Moresdale Lane LS14 6JR
2293 Seven Hills Primary School, Appleby Way
LS27 8LA
2441 Shadwell Primary School, Main Street LS17 8JF
2462 Shakespeare Primary School, Shakespeare Avenue LS9 7HP
2510 Sharp Lane Primary School, Sharp Lane
LS10 4QE
3929 Shire Oak Church of England Primary School, Wood Lane LS6 2DT
2335 Southroyd Primary School, Littlemoor Crescent LS28 8AT
2414 Spring Bank Primary School, Spring Road
LS6 1AD
3056St Bartholomew’s Church of England
Primary School, Strawberry Lane LS12 1SF
3315St Chad’s Church of England (Aided) Primary
School, Northolme Avenue LS16 5QR S 3047 St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, Clifford Road LS23 6DB
3908St Matthew’s Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Wood Lane LS7 3QF S
3350St Oswald’s Church of England (Aided)
Junior School, The Green LS20 9BT S
3911St Peter’s Church of England (Aided) Primary
School, Cromwell Street LS9 7SG S 2490 Stanningley Primary School, Leeds & Bradford Road LS28 6PE
2491 Summerfield Primary School, Intake Lane
LS13 1DQ
2468 Swarcliffe Primary School, Swarcliffe Drive
LS14 5JW
2503 Swinnow Primary School, Swinnow Road
LS13 4PG
T
2432
3044
2312
2348
Talbot Primary School, East Moor Road LS8 1AF
Thorner Church of England Primary School, Kirkhills LS14 3JD
Thorpe Primary School, Dolphin Lane
WF3 3DG
Tranmere Park Primary School, Ridge Close
LS20 8JJ
V
3928 Valley View Primary School, Coal Hill Drive
LS13 1DD
2454 Victoria Primary School, Ivy Avenue LS9
9ER
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2421 Weetwood Primary School, Weetwood Lane LS16 5NW
2364 Westbrook Lane Primary School, Westbrook Lane LS18 5AH
2297 Westerton Primary School, Hesketh Lane
WF3 1AR
2403 Westgate Primary School, Scarborough Road LS21 3JS
3045Wetherby St James Church of England
Primary School, Hallfield Lane LS22 6JS
2493 Whingate Primary School, Whingate Road
LS12 3DS
3912Whinmoor St Paul’s Church of England (Aided)
Primary School, Whinmoor Crescent LS14 1EG S
2456 White Laith Primary School, Naburn Drive
LS14 2BL
2494 Whitecote Primary School, Wellington Grove LS13 2LQ
2390 Wigton Moor Primary School, Barfield Crescent LS17 8RU
2471 Windmill Primary School, Windmill Road
LS10 3HQ
2461 Woodlands Primary School, Foundry Place
LS9 6DA
2314 Woodlesford Primary School, Church Street LS26 8RD
2457 Wykebeck Primary School, Brander Street
LS9 6QH
2801
2384
2399
Y
2358
2324
Yeadon Westfield Infant School, Westfield
Grove LS19 7NQ
Yeadon Westfield Junior School, New Road
LS19 7HW
Kippax Ash Tree Primary School, Gibson Lane LS25 7JL
Kippax Greenfield Primary School, Ebor Mount LS25 7PA Kippax North Primary School, Brexdale Avenue LS25 7EJ
M
3923 Meadowfield Primary School, Halton Moor Avenue LS9 OEY
2477 Middleton Primary School, Middleton Park Avenue LS10 4HU
N
2397 Ninelands Primary School, Ninelands Lane
LS25 1NT
S
3917
2328
Strawberry Fields Primary School, Lidgett Lane LS25 1LL
Swillington Primary School, Church Lane
LS26 8DX
T
2465 Templenewsam Halton Primary School, Pinfold Lane LS15 7SY
W
2478 Westwood Primary School, Bodmin Garth
LS10 4NU
2466 Whitkirk Primary School, Templegate Walk
LS15 0EU
Codes for all Foundation Schools
A
2507
2463
Allerton Bywater Primary School, Leeds Road
WF10 2DR
Austhorpe Primary School, Austhorpe
Lane LS15 8TP
C
2453 Colton Primary School, School Lane LS15 9AL
E
2395 East Garforth Primary School, Aberford Road LS25 2HF
G
2396 Garforth Green Lane Primary Academy,
Ribblesdale Avenue LS25 2JX
H
2483 Hugh Gaitskell Primary School, St. Anthonys Drive LS11 8AB
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Codes for all Catholic primary schools
C
3369
3370
Christ The King Catholic Primary School Bramley,
Kings Approach LS13 2DX S
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Halton Moor Avenue LS9 0HA S
3378
3379
3385
3373
St Paul’s Catholic Primary School, Buckstone Crescent LS17 5ES S
St Phillip’s Catholic Primary School, Middleton,
St. Philip's Avenue LS10 3SL S
St Theresa’s Catholic Primary School, Barwick Road LS15 8RQ S
St Urban’s Catholic Primary School, Tongue Lane LS6 4QD S
H
3372
3380
3383
Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Parliament Road LS12 2LH S
Holy Name Catholic Primary School, Otley Old Road LS16 6NF S
Holy Rosary and St Anne’s Catholic
Primary School, Leopold Street LS7 4AW S I
3381Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic
Primary School, 292 Harrogate Road LS17 6SX
S
O
3376Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Pigeon
Cote Road LS14 1EP S
R
3364 Rothwell St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Royds Lane LS26 0BJ S
S
3377 Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Eden Way
LS4 2TF S
3363 SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School,Yeadon,
New Road LS19 7HW S
3367 St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School, Beeston, Barkly Road LS11 7JS S
3368 St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, Harehills, St. Wilfrid's Circus LS8 3PF S
3365 St Benedict’s Catholic Primary School, Station Fields LS25 1PS S
3358 St Edward’s Catholic Primary School, Westwood Way LS23 6DX S
3362 St Francis Catholic Primary School, Morley, Highcliffe Road LS27 9LX S
3371St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School,
Beeston, Lady Pit Lane LS11 6RX S
3374 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Hunslet, Joseph Street LS10 2AD S
3360 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Otley, Manor Square LS21 3AY S
3361 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Pudsey, Mount Pleasant Road LS28 7AZ S 3366 St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Wetherby, Barleyfields Road LS22 6PR S
3359 St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Horsforth, Broadgate Lane LS18 5AB S
3375 St Nicholas Catholic Primary School, Oakwood Lane LS9 6QY S
3382 St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School, Torre Road LS9 7QL S Summary
Code for the Jewish primary school
B
3915 Brodetsky Primary School, Wentworth Avenue LS17 7TN S
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Glossary
Admissions policy
The policy setting out how we
decide which children to offer places
at a school to.
Appeal
If you are not happy with the
school we have offered you, you can
appeal to an independent panel who
can look at your individual case and
may be able to offer you the school
you want. Please see our Appeal
Guide on our website for more
information about appeals.
Common preference form
This is the form you can use to apply
for a place at any secondary school
if you live in Leeds. Parents must
apply to their local authority. Local
authorities then pass the information
between each other, as appropriate.
Community schools
These are the schools where we
decide who is offered a place.
Co-ordinated admission
arrangements
This is where all schools use a single
common preference form so parents
do not have to apply to individual
voluntary-aided, foundation schools
and academies.
Distance
This will be measured using a
straight-line distance system. As part
of this system there is a program that
measures the ‘straight-line’ distance
from the centre of the main school
building to your home address (this
data is obtained from the postal
address file).
Foundation schools
These schools are outside local
authority control. They have their
own admissions policy and are
part of the co-ordinated admission
arrangements.
Nearest school
The closest school to your home
measured by a straight line, not by
road. This does not include voluntaryaided schools.
Voluntary-aided schools
These are Faith schools that decide
their own policy on admissions and
take responsibility for offering school
places.
Ofsted
Office for Standards in Education
– this is the official organisation for
monitoring standards in schools
through regular inspections.
Waiting list
Once offers have been made, we
then set up a waiting list. This is a list
of parents who have asked for their
child’s name to be put on a list for a
school. It is not when you apply to go
on the waiting list that’s important,
it’s how you stand in relation to
the admissions policy. You need to
remember that children can move
up and down the waiting list. This is
mainly due to families moving into
the area.
Preference
Parents can express a preference for
a school for their child. A preference
is not the same as free choice.
Siblings
Siblings refers to brothers or sisters,
half brother or sister, adopted
brother or sister, step brother or
sister, foster brother or sister, all living
at the same address. The definition
does not include cousins or other
family members sharing a house.
SEN casework officer
If your child has a statement of
special educational needs, this is the
named person who you can contact
if you have any problems.
Statement of Special
Educational Needs
This is a legal document, produced
after an assessment of your child
and setting out how we will meet
their special needs.
Waiting list and appeal form
This is the form you must fill in if you
are not happy with the community
or voluntary-controlled school we
have offered your child.
Academies
These schools are independent
schools funded by the government.
The governing body of an academy
decides its own policy on admissions
and takes responsibility for offering
school places.
Supplementary Information forms
(SIFs)
All parents who list their preferred
schools on the website or on the
Common Preference Form are
regarded as having made valid
applications. A supplementary
information form may also have to
be completed for applicants to be
considered under faith criteria of
faith schools.
Summary
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Apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk
Admissions Team,
Floor 10 West,
Merrion House,
110 Merrion Centre,
Leeds
LS2 8DT.
Phone: 0113 222 4414
Email: education.annual.cycle@leeds.gov.uk
Website: www.leeds.gov.uk