Admissions

Admission Policies

Meanwood CE Primary Admissions
Policy 2024-25

Meanwood CE Primary Admissions
Policy 2026-27

Meanwood CE Primary Admissions
policy 2025-26

Meanwood CE Primary Admissions
policy 2027-28

Please click the link above for information about your child starting our school in the Reception year.

If you are interested in your child joining Meanwood in Years 1-6 you need to ring the school office on 01132755883 or email admin@meanwood.leeds.sch.uk.

You will also need to speak to Leeds City Council as they hold the waiting list and complete an In Year Common Preference Form – please see the links below.

For a step by step guide regarding the admissions process please click on the video link below. The video has been created by Leeds City Council

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRU1SrS7iJE

The below timetable applies to applications made to Leeds City Council. If you apply to another local authority, they may have different dates.

  Children born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022 are due to start reception in September 2026
1 November 2025  

Applications open. You can apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk/apply

 

15 January 2026 National deadline for applying for Reception 2026 places
 
16 April 2026 National offer day
 

Application Timetable

In-year Applications

If you’re moving into Leeds or want to change schools in Leeds, you need to make a school transfer – often called an in-year application.

This includes

  • applications for a place in reception after the start of term in September
  • applications for a place in all other year groups (year 1-6)

You should always ring the school on 01132755883 if you have any questions or queries about in-year admissions.

How to apply for an in-year place

We are part of the Leeds coordinated in-year application scheme. This means you can apply for a place online using the Leeds in-year application form at Before you move schools (leeds.gov.uk).  You can apply for places at our school and other Leeds schools.

If you have moved house, please upload evidence of the house move with the online application. You can find out what you need to provide on the above website.

We have to offer places by applying our admission policy criteria to your child’s application.   Leeds City Council will contact you with our decision no later than 15 school days from when you apply.  If they cannot offer your child a place at our school, they will

  • add your child to our waiting list in case a place becomes available during the school year
  • send you a letter to explain the reasons we cannot offer a place (usually that we are full) and tell you how you can appeal

Our waiting lists are kept until end of each school year.   You will need to make a new application if you want to be on the waiting list for the following school year.

Appeals

f we cannot offer you a place at the school you requested, you will have the right of appeal. The appeal panel is independent of the school and council and the decision is legally binding.

Before you appeal you:

Leeds City Council arranges our appeals and you can find the appeal form at School appeals (leeds.gov.uk)

 

Appeals for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 – these classes are limited to 30 pupils per teacher by law. This means that appeals for these places are less likely to be successful.

If our school refuses your child a place because of this limit and you want to appeal, you will need to make an infant class size appeal.  You can see if your reasons are likely to be successful by reading the Department for Education’s information about infant class size appeals.

Other appeals – You can appeal because you want your child to attend a particular school. These are successful if the panel agree that the reasons for your appeal outweigh the school’s decision not to admit any more children.

Wanting your child to go to a school because you think it is the best one in the area is not likely to convince the panel that your child should get a place there.