Apply for a primary or junior school place

Offers

• National offer day was Tuesday 19 April 2022
• Offer emails were sent in the evening on 19 April 2022
• The online application system is updated with offers and applicants can respond from the evening of 19 April 2022.

Responding to offers (accepting/rejecting)

• You must accept or decline the offer by Wednesday 4 May 2022. If you applied using a paper form the offer letter explains how to respond.
• If you applied online 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.  

Further Offers

• After National offer day we continue to process applications and make offers on behalf of schools until the end of August 2022. Schools do not offer places directly.
• Two additional rounds of offers will be sent out according to the timetable below
• All late applicants will be offered a place in the second and third round.

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 live close enough to get a place?

Find the distance to your preferred schools using the GOV.UK schools comparison service. You can view the distance of the last child offered a place in the previous admissions window to work out if your child is likely to qualify for a place.

Remember that although this information can be used to give an idea of how likely it is that your child will be offered a place, the ‘last distance’ will change every year. We can never guarantee any child will be offered a place at any school. 

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.

The cost of home to school travel is covered by free transport provided by Transport for London (TfL).

Talk to your child and other parents

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.

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.

You should read the admission criteria for your preferred schools to figure out the criterion under which your application will 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 2021

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.

Important note about varied admission arrangements for 2021/22 and 2022/23

In response to the publication of the new School Admissions Code on 1st September 2021, all admission authorities in Brent were required to vary their admission arrangements to include children adopted from state care abroad within their definition of previously looked after children, so that these children were given equal priority with Looked After Children and other Previously Looked After Children.

If you do not live in Bent and you want a place in a Brent school, you will need to apply to the council that you live in

September / October - Visit schools during their open day or evening events (.pdf, 115.7kB)

• 1 September 2021 - Applications open
• 15 January 2022 -  Applications deadline
• 19 April 2022 - National offer day
• 4 May 2022 - Response deadline

Second round of offers

• 4 May 2022 - Deadline for applications and changes
• Week ending 13 May 2022 Second round of offers are made
• 20 May 2022 Second round response deadline

Third round of offers

• 20 May 2022 Deadline for applications and changes 
• Week ending 17 June 2022 - Third round offers
• 24 June 2022 - Third round response deadline
• September 2022 - Children start school

Apply for:

• children born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 who will start Reception class at a primary or infant school in September 2022
• children born between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015 who currently attend an infant school and will transfer to junior school in September 2022.

The deadline to submit your on-time application was Saturday, 15 January 2022.

Applications received after this date will be considered as 'late' and will not be considered until the second round of offers (see the timetable below).

Important information about how to apply

Your address

• Use your child’s permanent home address on 15 January 2022
• 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 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 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, PO Box 1057, Wembley, HA9 1HJ.
  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 SIFs 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.
• Evidence of social/medical reasons must be provided directly to school

There are two further rounds of offers  in section 3 above. 

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 2022, you will receive an offer letter at the end of the next round.