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Apply for a primary or junior school place

National Offer Day

Offer emails will be sent in the evening of 16 April 2025. The online application system is updated with offers, and applicants can respond from the evening of 16 April 2025. If you have not received your offer e-mail by Thursday 17 April, please e-mail school.admissions@brent.gov.uk.

You can also check your offer outcome by logging into your account on the E-admissions website.

Applicants who transferred their application to Brent from another Local Authority area will be sent an e-mail with details of their offer and how to respond.

Responding to offers (accepting/rejecting)

You must accept or decline the offer by Wednesday 30 April 2025.

You must respond to the offer through the eAdmissions website. You will need the username and password you used when you made your application. If you can't remember this information, you can use the 'Forgotten your username or password?' option.

Once you have logged in, go to the 'My school admissions' page then select 'View outcome and respond.'

We strongly advise applicants to accept the place offered. Accepting the offer secures the school for your child, so you have a back up, in case you’re unsuccessful in the second or third rounds or your appeal is not upheld.
Accepting the place does not affect your waiting list position or appeals.
If you do not accept the offer the place may be offered to another applicant, and subsequent offers may be further away from your home.

Find detailed information about how school places were offered on National Offer Day.

Paper applicants should refer to the offer letter for details about responding to their offer.

What happens next

There are two further rounds of offers as outlined in the section ‘Important admissions dates’.

We will only contact you again if we are able to make an offer for one of your higher preference schools.

Late applications will also be considered during these offer rounds.

If you submitted an application after the closing date of 15 January 2025, you will receive an offer letter at the end of the next round.

Schools with vacancies

Vacancies are available at the following schools in Brent.

Reception

Braintcroft E-Act Primary Academy
Brentfield Primary School
Carlton Vale Infant School
Chalkhill Primary School
Christ Church CofE Primary School
Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School
Elsley Primary School
Fryent Primary School
Furness Primary School
Gladstone Park Primary School
Harlesden Primary School
Harris Primary Academy South Kenton
Kilburn Grange School
Kingsbury Green Primary School
Leopold Primary School
Lyon Park Primary School
Mora Primary School
Newfield Primary School
Oakington Manor Primary School
Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School
Preston Manor School
Preston Park Primary School
Roe Green Infant School
Sinai Jewish Primary School
St Andrew and St Francis CofE Primary School
St Mary's CofE Primary School
St Mary's RC Primary School
Sudbury Primary School
The Stonebridge School
Wembley Primary School

Year 3

Malorees Junior School
Mount Stewart Junior School
Roe Green Junior School
St Joseph’s RC Junior School
St Mary Magdalen’s RC Junior School
The Kilburn Park School Foundation

If you would like to change your application to choose one of these schools in a later round, follow the procedure outlined below for changing your preferences. If you would like to enquire about schools with vacancies in other local authority areas we recommend you contact those Local Authorities directly.

Waiting lists

Children will be automatically added to the waiting list for any Brent schools listed as higher preferences than the school offered. Please note that waiting list positions are only calculated immediately before each round of offers. This is because we may still be adding new applications.

View more information about waiting lists

Applicants who are happy with the offered school and no longer wish to be considered for schools they ranked higher on their application must request that their child is taken off the waiting list by emailing offer.acceptdecline@brent.gov.uk

Children on waiting lists may be offered a higher preference school in the future and if this happens their current offer will no longer be available.

If you are unsure about whether to remain on the waiting list please seek advice from Brent school admissions.

Changing your preferences

You can change your preferences and other details by completing the change of circumstances form.

It is important that you advise us if any details of your application have changed (e.g. your address).

If you are offered a place based on out-of-date information the offer will be withdrawn.

Making an appeal

The offer notification you will receive will explain why any higher preference schools on your application were not offered. You have the right to appeal against the refusal to offer a place at any school you listed on your application.

To appeal for a place at a Brent community primary school, please visit the waiting lists and appeals page. To submit an appeal for any other Brent school, including academies and faith schools, you must approach the school directly.

If you wish to appeal to a school outside Brent, you should contact the school or relevant local authority for details of the appeal process.

Appeals should be lodged within 20 schools days of the offer date. The deadline for submitting an appeal for a community school is 20 May 2025. Appeals submitted after the deadline will still be heard but we cannot guarantee that the appeal will be scheduled before the start of term in September.

Find out more on how to appeal

Plan and prepare

It is important to plan and prepare before you start your application. Read our top tips to help you decide which schools to apply for.

Types of schools

Visit the GOV.UK website for an explanation of the types of schools.

Are your preferences realistic?

Consider how likely it is that your child will be offered a place at your preferred schools.
Read the admissions criteria for each school and look to see which criteria apply to your child.
Visit the website of the school you are interested in to see their admissions criteria.

Do you meet the school’s admissions criteria?

You can view the information about how places have been offered previously to work out if your child is likely to qualify for a place. However, it is important to keep in mind that this information can be used to give an idea of how likely it is that your child will be offered a place. We can never guarantee any child will be offered a place at any school. The ‘last distance’ will change every year.

Visit schools

Don’t judge a school based on what others say – visit the schools on your shortlist. Most schools will hold open day or evening events so you can visit the school and see it for yourself.

Read Ofsted reports

Brent has many ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ schools. You can view the latest reports on the Ofsted website for each school.

How will your child travel to school?

A long journey to school on public transport may not be the best choice for a child. Work out how long it will take, what public transport options there are and if buses or trains run at the right times to get your child to and back from school.

Consider what is best for your child

Remember that the right school for your friend’s child may not be the right school for your child. Don’t judge a school based on what others say – do your research, visit the school and see for yourself.

Admissions criteria

All schools must determine a set of rules - known as oversubscription or admissions criteria - which are used to determine the applications that will have priority for the available places. Oversubscription criteria are only used if a school has more applications than places available. If a school is undersubscribed then all children must be offered a place where the school is their highest available preference.

You should read the admission criteria for your preferred schools to understand the criterion under which your application may be considered. It can be useful to look at statistics (like the furthest distance from school that a place was last offered) to determine how likely your application is to be successful.

See information about offers in 2024

Brent Council is the Admission Authority for its Community Primary Schools and is responsible for formally agreeing the admissions criteria for these schools. We also publish a 'Scheme of Co-ordination' which explains how the council will co-ordinate all applications received for children applying to start primary or secondary school at the beginning of September. Admission arrangements and oversubscription criteria for voluntary aided (faith), foundation schools and academies are also available on this page.

You can see the admissions criteria for every state school in Brent by visiting the school's website or on our admissions criteria page.

Important admissions dates

If you do not live in Brent but you want a place in a Brent school, you need to apply to the council where you live.

Application dates

1 September 2024 – Applications open at eAdmissions
15 January 2025 - Applications deadline
16 April 2025 - National offer day
30 April 2025 - Response deadline

Second round of offers

30 April 2025 - deadline for applications and changes
Week ending 16 May 2025 - second round of offers are made
23 May 2025 - second round response deadline

Third round of offers

30 May 2025 - deadline for applications and changes
Week ending 20 June 2025 - third round offers
27 June 2025 - third round response deadline
September 2025 - children start school

How to apply for a primary school place

The deadline to submit your on-time application is Wednesday 15 January 2025.

This is for parents who need to apply for a child born between:

1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 and will start Reception class at a primary or infant school in September 2025.
1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 and currently attends an infant school and will transfer to junior school in September 2025.

Applications received after 15 January 2025 will be considered as 'late' and will not be processed until the second or third round of offers.

Applications open from 1 September 2024 and you cannot start an application before this date.

Apply for a school place

Important information about how to apply

Your address

Use your child’s permanent home address on 15 January 2025.
Do not use the address of a relative or someone who provides temporary care for your child, a business address, a childminders address or any address other than the child’s permanent home address.
We will check internal databases to confirm your address and will write to you if you need to submit further evidence of your address.
If you submit a late application, use your child's permanent home address at the time you submit the application.

Your preferred schools

List up to 6 preferences. List the school you want the most as your first preference.
Include your local schools amongst your preferences.
You can include schools outside Brent.
Listing only one or two school does not increase your chances of being offered a place.

Additional information and evidence

Attach additional information to your application online or post it to School Admissions, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, HA9 0FJ.
A supplementary information form (SIF) is required for some schools. The online application form will advise you if a SIF is required. You should send SIF direct to the school.
Evidence is required for looked after and previously looked after children. The social worker involved must provide a letter confirming that the child is in care. If the child was adopted immediately after being in care please provide a copy of the child arrangements order, special guardianship order or proof of adoption from your child’s home authority. If the child was adopted from state care abroad, please provide any relevant paperwork.
We can only accept applications for children living in Brent. If your child lives in a different local authority area, but you would still like to be considered for a Brent school, you should make your application to your home local authority.

Late applications

There are two further rounds of offers after National Offer Day.

We strongly encourage you to make your application on time. Applications received after 23:59 on 15 January 2025 will be processed as a late application and you will not find out what school you have been offered until the second or third round of offers.

You may be less likely to receive an offer at one of your preference schools if all places have already been offered, however we will still make an offer of a place at the highest available preference school where we can.

Late applications will be considered alongside the existing applications of on-time applications who did not receive an offer at their highest preferences schools and who have remained on the waiting list.