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 will appear here on National Offer Day, 2 March 2026.
Previous years
Unsuccessful applications
Find out why an application may have been unsuccessful.
For oversubscribed local authority administered schools, we will 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
Information will appear here on National Offer Day, 2 March 2026.
Accessibility
If you use assistive technology such as a screen reader, please contact us, and we will do our best to help.
- phone: 0300 330 9472
- email: Admissions and Transport team