For any queries regarding admissions or in year transfers, please contact the general office. Please note that application forms for unsuccessful applicants will be retained by the Academy for 2 years.
We are an academy school and therefore our admission authority is Abbey Multi Academy Trust.
Our school’s admission authority sets the admission policy every year. All our school’s admission policies are available in the document menu on this page. Our current policies are:
If you are applying for a year 7 place for September 2025, all applications are made in advance. The national closing date is 31 October 2024. Offers are made by the Local Authority on national offer day (03 March 2025).
Our Published Admission Number (PAN) is 240 per year group and this is the number of places the school can admit in year 7 in 2025.
You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins. If this is Leeds, please go to www.leeds.gov.uk/apply for further details or to make an application.
You can also watch the Leeds City Council school admissions video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRU1SrS7iJE for more information.
If you are applying for admission under our faith criteria, you will need to send to our school (not the local authority) a completed Supplementary Information Form (SIF). You can do this by post or by emailing sif@abbeygrangeacademy.co.uk . Our SIF can be found on this page and in our admissions policies. We need to receive this by no later than 31 October 2024.
You will also need to make an application to the local authority asking for a place at our school. You do this online at the above link. If you do not send the application to the local authority, you will not have made a valid application for a place at our school.
You can also see information about our school, including previous admission data, on our school page on the Leeds City Council’s website: Abbey Grange Church of England Academy
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.
This includes
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.
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
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.
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:
Appeals information and appeal forms can be obtained by contacting the clerk to the independent appeal panel:
Admission Appeal Clerk, PO Box 1694, Huddersfield, HD1 9DL
Telephone: 07949707868
Email: churchschoolappeals@gmail.com
If you are appealing for a year 7 place for September 2025, you need to submit your appeal form by the deadline set out in our Admissions Appeals Timeline (available on this 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.
Our Sixth Form offers 240 places for post 16 study, subject to entry requirements being met. You can find full information on our Sixth Form admissions process, including the online application link on the Sixth Form website
Applicants applying for 3 A Level courses should have at least 5 GCSEs (not including BTEC courses) at grade C or above and at least B in the subjects they wish to do or other related subjects. Applicants applying for 4 A Level courses should have at least 8 GCSEs (not including BTEC courses), all at grade B or above. All applicants, both internal and external should apply through Applicaa
