Admissions

We warmly welcome applications to St Nicholas Catholic Primary School.

St Nicholas is a Voluntary Aided Catholic Primary School. The Governing Body is the admissions authority for the school and applications are considered in accordance with our published Admissions Policy.

Applying for a Reception Place

Applications for a Reception place are made through your home Local Authority.

For children starting Reception in September 2027, applications open on 1 November 2026 and the national closing date is 15 January 2027. Offers will be made by Local Authorities on 16 April 2027.

As St Nicholas is a Catholic school, parents and carers should also complete our Supplementary Information Form (SIF) where they wish the information on the form to be considered when the school applies its oversubscription criteria.

The SIF should be returned to school in accordance with the instructions contained within the form.

Further information about applying for a primary school place is available from Leeds City Council.

In-Year Admissions

An in-year application is an application for a school place outside the normal Reception admissions round. This includes applications for places in Years 1 to 6 and Reception applications made after the start of the school year.

If you would like to apply for an in-year place at St Nicholas, please visit the Leeds City Council school admissions website for information about the application process, current vacancies and how to apply.

Applications are considered in accordance with the school’s published Admissions Policy.

Admissions Documents

Please find our current admissions documents below:

• Admissions Policy 2026–2027
• Supplementary Information Form 2026–2027
• Admissions Policy 2027–2028
• Supplementary Information Form 2027–2028
• School Parish Boundaries

School Admission Appeals

If your child has been refused a place at St Nicholas Catholic Primary School, you have the right to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel.

Information about making an appeal, including the relevant forms and current appeal timetable, can be found on the Leeds City Council School Appeals webpage.

Reception Appeals

The previous Reception appeal deadlines have now passed.

The deadline dates for the 2027–2028 admissions round will be added to this page in line with the published appeals timetable.

One point here: Leeds has in fact already published a 14 May 2027 Reception appeal deadline on its current offer-day information, so you could add that now if your business manager is happy to do so.

In-Year Appeals

The deadline for lodging an appeal against a decision for any other year group is 20 school days from the date of notification that the application for a school place was unsuccessful.

Appeals will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being received by the Clerk. Following the hearing, decision letters will be sent within five school days of the hearing.

School days are term-time days only and do not include school holidays. If an appeal is submitted during the school holidays, the school-day deadline will not begin until the start of the next term.

For example, if an appeal is received in July after schools have closed for the summer, the school-day period will begin when the new academic term starts in September.

Please see the published appeal timetable for further information.

Following an Appeal

If you wish to pursue a complaint following the appeal process, you can contact the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Telephone: 0845 602 1983 or 024 7682 1960

Post:
The Local Government Ombudsman
PO Box 4771
Coventry
CV4 0EH

Further information is available from the Local Government Ombudsman website.