Admissions

Admissions arrangements for Pudsey Grammar School are provided by Leeds City Council.

 Parents applying for their child to join Pudsey Grammar School in September of Year 7

We are a foundation school and the admission authority is the Governing Body.

The school’s admission authority sets the admission policy every year. We use Leeds City Council Admissions Policies. You can read our school’s admission polices below:

• In-year applications to start at our school between September 2025 and July 2026 – read our 2025/26 policy
• Applications for year 7 places in September 2026 – read our 2026/27 policy
• Applications for year 7 places in September 2027 – our 2027/28 policy will be on the school website by 15.3.2026.

How to apply for a September 2026 year 7 place

If you are applying for a year 7 place for September 2026, all applications are made in advance. The national closing date is 31 October 2025. Offers are made by the Local Authority on national offer day (2 March 2026). 

Our Published Admission Number (PAN) is 225. This is a temporary increase from 215 and has been agreed by the Local Authority. This is the number of places the school can admit in year 7 in 2026. 

You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins. If this is Leeds, go to www.leeds.gov.uk/apply. The LA website is a composite prospectus for all Leeds schools and includes information about:  

• all the steps you need to go through to make an application
• the key dates
• a search tool to see if your home address gives any higher priority for admission to any school(s)
• an explanation about how places are offered if there are more applications than spaces (oversubscribed)
• the online application portal - apply online to be sent your offer day letter by email
• a summary of each school’s individual admission policy criteria
• data about who got a place in the last 3 years - this will help you work out if there is a reasonable chance of your child qualifying for a place.
• Information about applying under a specific admission criteria (such as your child being previously looked after). It is important to ensure you submit all supporting evidence by the deadline to show you meet any such criteria.

You can also watch the Leeds City Council school admissions video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRU1SrS7iJE for more information. 

You can also see information about our school, including previous admission data, on our school page on the Leeds City Council’s website https://www.leeds.gov.uk/schools-and-education/schools/pudsey-grammar-school

Application timetable - 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 2014 and 31 August 2015 are due to start year 7 in September 2026
1 September 2025	Applications open.  You can apply online at  www.leeds.gov.uk/apply
31 October 2025	National deadline for applying for year 7 2026 places
28 November 2025	Deadline for making changes that will be considered as being on-time by our school
31 December 2025	Final date Leeds City Council uses for adding late applications or receiving change of address evidence.   Any new applications received by Leeds City Council after this date will not be offered a school place until the first round of reallocations in April
2 March 2026	National offer day (first working day after 1 March)
20 March 2026	Deadline for ·       accepting your offer for a place at our school. ·       making any changes to your application before Leeds City Council carries out the first reallocation of places
31 March 2026	Any year 7 appeals received by this date will be heard before the summer holiday   Leeds City Council arranges our appeals.
April to end of August 2026	Any available year 7 places are automatically allocated from waiting lists by Leeds City Council   Lower preference school offers are also withdrawn automatically (even if accepted)
May to July 2026	Appeals heard by independent appeal panels
September 2026	Start secondary school

 

In-year applications

If you are 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.

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, you’ll need to submit evidence of the house move at the same time you make your 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 the 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

If we cannot offer you a place, you will have the right of appeal. The appeal panel is independent of the school and council and their decision is legally binding. Before you appeal you:

• should accept any place that you have been offered in case your appeal is not successful
• should think about why you are appealing andcheck if it is likely to be successful
• could read theadvice for appealing school places on GOV.UK 
• could get independent advice on making an appeal from a charity

 

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

If you are appealing for a year 7 place for September 2026, you need to submit your appeal form by any deadline set out on the above page to ensure the appeal will be heard before the summer holidays.  

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.

 

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Extra Information

Pudsey Grammar School Catchment Map

Our Admission Policies

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