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 [39.4 KB] [xlsx] 

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

The following local authority administered schools were oversubscribed.

School Name Last Child Allocated (Metres)
All Saints CE Primary School, Bexhill 410m in category 4
Ashdown Primary School 868m in category 4
Battle and Langton CE Primary School 5,299m in category 6
Bodiam CE Primary School 14,459m in category 6
Buxted CE Primary School 3,269m in category 6
Catsfield CE Primary School 3,898m in category 6
Denton Community School 1,299m in category 4
Etchingham CE Primary School 3,897m in category 6
Forest Row CE Primary School 7,797m in category 6
Hamsey Community Primary School 2,091m in category 6
Harbour Primary & Nursery School 508m in category 4
Harlands Primary School 661m in category 4
Herstmonceux CE Primary School 6,273m in category 6
High Hurstwood CE Primary School 4,290m in category 6
Mayfield CE Primary School 2,382m in category 6
Maynards Green Community Primary School 9,140m in category 6
Meridian Primary School 886m in category 4
Motcombe Community School 2,092m in category 4
Parkside Community Primary School 1,286m in category 4
Pevensey and Westham CE Primary School 3,467m in category 6
Punnetts Town Community Primary School Only category 6 refused
Rotherfield Primary School 3,211m in category 6
Sandown Primary School Only lates refused
Stone Cross School 1,387m in category 6
Stonegate CE Primary School 5,279m in category 6
Wallands Community Primary School 500m in category 4
Wivelsfield Primary School Only category 6 refused

All other local authority administered schools were able to offer places to all on-time applicants who were not offered a higher preference

Admissions for the following schools were done by the local authority on behalf of the relevant academy trust. They may have different criteria to that listed above

School Name Last Child Allocated (Metres)
Hurst Green CE Primary School 5,363 m in out area category
Little Common School 2,302m in category 4
Newick CE Primary School 4,022m in category 6
Sedlescombe CE Primary School Only category 5 refused
St Leonards CE Primary Academy 2,798m in category 4
St Paul's CE Primary Academy 1,859 m in area
Thornton Grove Primary Academy

875 m in other children category

If you were refused a place at another school please contact them directly for this information

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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