How places are allocated

The 2026 intake

To help you understand the 2026 intake, you'll find details on this page about the number of preferences stated for each school. 

Primary and Junior schools, including infant schools

Data for the 2026 primary and junior intake will appear here on National Offer Day, 16 April 2026.

Secondary preference and allocation data on national offer day

Data for the 2026 secondary intake  [24.8 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 will give the criterion and distance (measured in a straight line) of the last child allocated on the relevant National Offer Day.

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

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 category.

Primary and Junior

Information will appear here on National Offer Day, 16 April 2026.

Secondary

The following local authority administered schools were oversubscribed.

School Name Last Child Allocated (metres)
Chailey School 6,212m in category 6
Claverham Community College 6,837m in category 6
Heathfield Community College 9,590m in category 6
Uckfield College 5,688m in category 5
Willingdon Community School 5,261m in category 4

The following schools manage their own admissions and were also oversubscribed. Please contact them for details on why they were unable to offer a place and how places were allocated:

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

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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