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Admissions

Apply for a Nursery place

We offer both 15 hour and 30 hour nursery places for children aged 3+. Children can join in September, January or April after they turn 3 years old.

Our Admissions policy explains how places are allocated.

Please call school or visit our school office for an application form. 
 


Reception through to Year 6

Deadline to apply for a Reception place – 15 January

If you are applying for a Reception place, all applications are made in advance. Offers are made by local authorities on national offer day.  

You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins. If this is Leeds, go to www.leeds.gov.uk/apply.

You can also watch the Leeds City Council school admissions video for more information.

Is your child born between April and August and starting Reception?

If your child is summer born child (born between 1 April and 31 August) you may request that your child be admitted out of their normal age group, to reception rather than year one.

Click here to find out more and read the Admission out of chronological age (including deferment for summer born children) section.

Apply for a reception place (if you have missed the deadline)

The council’s social media pages will also tell you about any Q&A sessions, where you can ask questions. You can also see information about our school, including previous admission data, on our school page on the Leeds City Council’s website leeds.gov.uk

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.

Moving schools can be a difficult experience for a child. You should always speak to your child’s current school before trying to move to see what support they can offer you.

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 most other Leeds schools at the same time on this form.  

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 and we will contact you with our decision about offering you a place.  We will tell you our decision no later than 15 schools days from when you apply.    

If we cannot offer you a place, we will 

  • write to you to explain the reasons
  • explain how you can appeal and   
  • add your child to our waiting list in case a place becomes free

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 

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.

If you are not offered 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)    

Move to us from another school

If you want to move school, get in touch and we can help you get started. You can complete this online on your council’s website:

For support with this, please contact the in-year transfer team – education.transfers@leeds.gov.uk

For any questions, get in touch:
oakwood.admissions@coopacademies.co.uk

Oversubscription Criteria

We admit up to 60 children in Reception each year – this is our PAN (Pupil Admission Number). If fewer than this apply, we offer a place to all applicants.

Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will be admitted to the school named on their plan. These children are assigned places before the oversubscription criteria is applied.

We follow the Leeds Local Authority oversubscription criteria. This criteria has now been updated to include: “Children who were in state care outside of England and were then adopted”.

Leeds Local Authority may need evidence that you meet the priority criteria below.

When there’s more applicants than places available

Priority 1

  1. Children in public care or fostered under an arrangement made by the local authority or children previously looked after by a Local Authority
  2. Pupils without an EHC plan, but who have Special Educational Needs, or with exceptional medical or mobility needs – that can only be met at Co-op Academy Oakwood
     

Priority 2

Children with a sibling who’ll start school at the start of the academic year and are living at the same address
 

Priority 3

Children who live in the catchment area for Oakwood (as defined by Leeds City Council)

Find your catchment area here – forms.leeds.gov.uk/SchoolCatchment
 

Priority 4

All other children
 

Tie Breaks

When there’s more children meeting these priorities than places available, we offer places based on distance. Those living closer to the school will be offered a place (when measured in a straight line)

Help

If you require any help, your local Council website has lots of information about the process. You can also contact us.

Leeds City Council Admissions Website
Leeds City Council Admissions Helpline – 0113 222 4414