Admissions

Reception through to Year 6

Deadline to apply for a Reception place – 15 January

For places in any year (apart from nursery)

You should apply on your local authority website.
Places are limited by the number of children we can (legally) accept in each year group.

If you live in an area that’s Leeds City Council – leeds.gov.uk
If you live in another area, find your local council here – gov.uk/find-local-council

Apply for a reception place (if you have missed the deadline)

If you live in an area that’s Leeds City Council – leeds.gov.uk
If you live in another area, find your local council here – gov.uk/find-local-council

Move to us from another school

If you want to move school, get in touch and we can help you get started. You can complete this online on your council’s website:

If you live in an area that’s Leeds City Council – leeds.gov.uk
If you live in another area, find your local council here – gov.uk/find-local-council

For support with this, please contact the in-year transfer team – education.transfers@leeds.gov.uk

For children born between:
1 Sept 2017 – 31 Aug 2018

When to apply:
1st Sept 2021 – 15th Jan 2022

Find out your school place:
16th Apr 2022

Start Reception:
Sept 2022

For children born between:
1 Sept 2018 – 31 Aug 2019

When to apply:
1st Sept 2022 – 15th Jan 2023

Find out your school place:
16th Apr 2023

Start Reception:
September 2023

For children born between:
1 Sept 2019 – 31 Aug 2020

When to apply:
1st Sept 2023 – 15th Jan 2024

Find out your school place:
16th Apr 2024

Start Reception:
Sept 2024

Oversubscription Criteria

We admit up to 60 children in Reception each year – this is our PAN (Pupil Admission Number). If fewer than this apply, we offer a place to all applicants.

Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will be admitted to the school named on their plan. These children are assigned places before the oversubscription criteria is applied.

We follow the Leeds Local Authority oversubscription criteria. This criteria has now been updated to include: “Children who were in state care outside of England and were then adopted”. We will consult on this new criteria in time for our September 2023 intake, so this criteria won’t apply for children starting at our academy in September 2022.

Leeds Local Authority may need evidence that you meet the priority criteria below.

Submit your evidence here – leeds.gov.uk/admissions
Or use these forms – Priority 1A | Priority 1B

When there’s more applicants than places available

Priority 1

Children in public care or fostered under an arrangement made by the local authority or children previously looked after by a Local Authority
Pupils without an EHC plan, but who have Special Educational Needs, or with exceptional medical or mobility needs – that can only be met at Co-op Academy Nightingale

Priority 2

Children with a sibling who’ll start school at the start of the academic year and are living at the same address

Priority 3

Children who live in the catchment area for Nightingale (as defined by Leeds City Council)

Find your catchment area here – forms.leeds.gov.uk/SchoolCatchment

Priority 4

All other children

Tie Breaks

When there’s more children meeting these priorities than places available, we offer places based on distance. Those living closer to the school will be offered a place (when measured in a straight line)