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How places are allocated

The 2025 intake

To help you understand the 2025 intake, you'll find details on this page about the number of preferences stated for each school. 

Primary and Junior schools, including infant schools

Information about this will appear here on National Offer Day, 16 April 2025.

Secondary preference and allocation data on national offer day

Data for the 2025 secondary intake [24.6 KB] [xlsx]

Previous years

See how places were allocated in previous years. 

Unsuccessful applications

Find out why an application may have been unsuccessful.

For oversubscribed local authority administered schools, we have given the criterion and distance (measured in a straight line) of the last child allocated.

If the tiebreaker was applied, we have stated the distance that relates to the furthest child allocated a place at the school within that admission priority.

School Name Last Child Allocated (metres)
Chailey School 7,721m in category 6
Claverham Community College 7,075m in category 6
Heathfield Community College 11,850m in category 6
Uckfield College All category 1-4 allocated
Willingdon Community School 4,327m in category 4

Categories:

  • Category 1 Looked After Children or previously Looked After Children
  • Category 2 in area children with a sibling attending
  • Category 3 children of staff members contracted to work at the school in question where:

a) The member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or

b) The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage

  • Category 4 in area children 
  • Category 5 outside area children with a sibling attending
  • Category 6 outside area children

The following schools manage their own admissions and were also oversubscribed:

  • Beacon Academy
  • Gildredge House
  • King's Academy Ringmer
  • Peacehaven Community School
  • Priory School
  • Ratton School
  • Seaford Head School
  • St Catherine's College
  • St Richard's Catholic College
  • The Cavendish School

Please contact them for details on why they were unable to offer a place.

All other East Sussex Schools were able to offer places to all on-time applicants who were not offered a higher preference.

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