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Offer day and what happens next

Find out which school place you have been offered, and what to do after the offer.

If your child did not get a place at the school you wanted for September 2024

If your child did not qualify for a place at any of your preferred schools, they will be offered a place at their closest school with available places.

Example

Sam applies to Big town Primary as their first preference school. Sam's child is not offered a place there, even though their home is inside the school’s catchment area.

There were more applications than places so the school used their admissions policy to decide who to give places to. Thirty places were available:

  • two places went to children who are fostered (priority 1)
  • twenty places went to children with a brother or sister at the school (priority 2)
  • the remaining eight places went to children who live in the catchment area but live closer to the school than Sam and their child (priority 3)

Instead, Sam was offered a place at their second preference of Small town Primary which had 30 places available:

  • five places went to children who have a brother or sister at the school (priority 2)
  • 20 places went to children who live inside the catchment area (priority 3)
  • the remaining five places went to children who live near the school but outside the catchment area, including Sam’s child (priority 4)

You also have the option to:

Check which primary schools still have places

Primary schools with Reception places available or a short waiting list for September 2024: 

  • Aberford Church of England Primary School
  • Alder Tree Primary Academy
  • Allerton Bywater Primary School
  • Allerton Church Of England Primary School
  • Alwoodley Primary School
  • Armley Park Primary School
  • Asquith Primary School
  • Bankside Primary School
  • Barwick In Elmet Church Of England Primary School
  • Beeston Primary School
  • Blackgates Primary Academy
  • Bracken Edge Primary School
  • Bramham Primary School
  • Bramley Park Academy
  • Bramley St Peter's Church of England Primary School
  • Broadgate Primary School
  • Brudenell Primary School
  • Calverley Church of England Primary School
  • Calverley Parkside Primary School
  • Carlton Primary School
  • Castleton Primary School
  • Christ Church Upper Armley Church Of England Primary School
  • Christ The King Catholic Primary School
  • Churwell Primary School
  • Clapgate Primary School
  • Co-Op Academy Beckfield
  • Co-Op Academy Brownhill
  • Co-Op Academy Nightingale
  • Co-Op Academy Oakwood
  • Co-Op Academy Woodlands
  • Cobden Primary School
  • Cockburn Haigh Road Academy
  • Collingham Lady Elizabeth Hastings' Church of England Primary School
  • Cookridge Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School
  • Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School
  • Cottingley Primary Academy
  • Deighton Gates Primary School
  • Dixons Trinity Chapeltown
  • East Ardsley Primary Academy
  • East Garforth Primary Academy
  • Ebor Gardens Primary School
  • Farsley Farfield Primary School
  • Farsley Westroyd Primary School
  • Fountain Primary School
  • Grange Farm Primary School
  • Green Lane Primary Academy
  • Greenhill Primary School
  • Greenside Primary School
  • Grimes Dyke Primary School
  • Guiseley Primary School
  • Harehills Primary School
  • Harewood Church of England Primary School
  • Hawksworth Church of England Primary School
  • Hawksworth Wood Primary School
  • Hollybush Primary School
  • Holy Name Catholic Voluntary Academy
  • Holy Rosary And St Anne's Catholic Primary School
  • Holy Trinity Church Of England Academy, Rothwell
  • Hovingham Primary School
  • Hugh Gaitskell Primary School
  • Hunslet Carr Primary School
  • Hunslet Moor Primary School
  • Immaculate Heart Of Mary Catholic Primary School
  • Ingram Road Primary School
  • Ireland Wood Primary School
  • Iveson Primary School
  • Kerr Mackie Primary School
  • Kippax Ash Tree Primary School
  • Kippax North Junior, Infant and Nursery School
  • Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Primary School (Ledston)
  • Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Primary School (Thorp Arch)
  • Lane End Primary School
  • Little London Academy
  • Low Road Primary School
  • Lower Wortley Primary School
  • Lowtown Primary School, Pudsey
  • Manston St James Primary Academy
  • Methley Primary School
  • Micklefield C Of E Primary Academy
  • Middleton Primary School
  • Middleton St Mary's Church of England Primary School
  • Moor Allerton Hall Primary School
  • New Bewerley Community School
  • Ninelands Primary School
  • Otley The Whartons Primary School
  • Oulton Primary School
  • Park Spring Primary School
  • Park View Primary Academy
  • Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Primary School
  • Primley Wood Primary School
  • Primrose Lane Primary School
  • Pudsey Waterloo Primary School
  • Quarry Mount Primary School
  • Queensway Primary School
  • Rawdon St Peter's Church of England Primary School
  • Raynville Academy
  • Richmond Hill Academy
  • Robin Hood Primary School
  • Rufford Park Primary School
  • Ryecroft Academy
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
  • Scholes (Elmet) Primary School
  • Seven Hills Primary School
  • Shakespeare Primary School
  • Sharp Lane Primary School
  • Southroyd Primary and Nursery School
  • Spring Bank Primary School
  • SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School
  • St Benedict's Catholic Primary School
  • St Francis Catholic Primary School, Morley
  • St Francis Of Assisi Catholic Primary School
  • St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Hunslet
  • St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Otley
  • St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Pudsey
  • St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Wetherby
  • St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Boston Spa
  • St Marys Church Of England Primary Academy
  • St Matthew's Church of England Primary School
  • St Paul's Catholic Primary School
  • St Philip's Catholic Primary and Nursery School
  • St Urban's Catholic Primary School
  • Summerfield Primary School
  • Swarcliffe Primary School
  • Swillington Primary Academy
  • Temple Learning Academy
  • Templenewsam Halton Primary School
  • Thorner Church Of England Primary School
  • Thorpe Primary School
  • Tranmere Park Primary School
  • Valley View Primary School
  • Victoria Primary Academy
  • Westerton Primary Academy
  • Westwood Primary School
  • Wetherby St James' Church of England Primary School
  • Whitecote Primary School
  • Woodlesford Primary School
  • Wykebeck Primary School
  • Yeadon Westfield Infant School

Last updated on 16 April 2024. 

Check which junior schools still have places

Junior schools with Year 3 places available for September 2024: 

  • Rothwell Victoria Junior School
  • Yeadon Westfield Junior School

Last updated on 16 April 2024. 

Check which secondary schools still have places

Secondary schools with places available or a short waiting list for September 2024: 

  • Bishop Young Church Of England Academy
  • Brigshaw High School and Language College
  • Co-op Academy Leeds
  • Co-Operative Academy Priesthorpe
  • Corpus Christi Catholic College
  • Dixons Unity Academy
  • John Smeaton Academy
  • Lawnswood School
  • Oulton Academy
  • Ralph Thoresby School
  • Temple Learning Academy
  • Wetherby High School

Last updated on 17 April 2024. 

Find out about waiting lists

You will automatically be added to the waiting list of any schools you preferenced that are higher on your application list than the place you were offered. Find out about how to remove your child from a waiting list and more information.

Make an appeal

If you are unhappy with your offer, you can make an appeal. In the meantime, you should accept the school place you have been offered. This will not affect your appeal.

You can see how places were allocated at each school by finding the 'Last child offered a place' on our check a school's admissions details tool.

Alternatively, you can download the data for all secondary schools (PDF, 131KB) or download the data for all primary and junior schools (PDF, 224KB).

When is offer day 2024

All schools in England make their offers on the same days.

Reception and junior places

Reception and junior places at primary school (September 2024) are offered from 8am on Tuesday 16 April 2024.

If you want your child to start Reception part-time or at a later date, you should speak to your school.

Year 7 places

Year 7 places at secondary school (September 2024) are offered from 8am on Friday 1 March 2024.

If your child has an EHC plan, they will receive their school place offer when it is named in the final amended plan.

Find out which school place you've been offered

To check which school place you've been offered, log into our online application portal. You will need your email address and password.

You will also receive an email with your offer. If you applied for a school place by paper form, you will receive an offer letter in the post (a few days after offer day).

Accepting your offer

You need to accept your offer with the school directly. You can find their contact details on our school details tool.

You must accept the offer by the deadline given in the offer email or letter. Otherwise, it may be withdrawn and the place given to someone else.

You should accept your offer even if your child is on waiting lists or you decide to appeal (this will not affected either process)

Offer day timeline

Primary school timeline

Important dates
16 April 2024
Offer day
30 April 2024First cut off for changes to be made before our first reallocation of places and deadline for accepting offers
14 May 2024Deadline for submitting an appeal to ensure the appeal hearing will be before September
May to August 2024Places allocated from waiting lists
June to July 2024Appeals heard by independent appeal panels
September 2024Start primary school

Secondary school timeline

Important dates
1 March 2024
Offer day
15 March 2024First cut off for changes to be made before our first reallocation of places and deadline for accepting offers
28 March 2024Deadline for submitting an appeal to ensure the appeal hearing will be before September
April to August 2024Places allocated from waiting lists
May to July 2024Appeals heard by independent appeal panels
September 2024
Start secondary school




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