The following documents are currently available to download:
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.
The school’s admission authority sets the admission policy every year. You can read our school’s admission polices below:
If you are applying for a year 7 place for September 2025, all applications are made in advance. Offers are made by local authorities on national offer day.
You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins.If this is Leeds, go to the LeedsAdmissions website.
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 byemailing sif@abbeygrangeacademy.co.uk We need to receive this by 31 October 2024.
You also need to make an application to the local authority asking for a place at our school. You do this online at the Leeds Admissions website. If you don't send the application to the local authority, you won't have made a valid application for a place at our school.
If you're moving into Leeds or want to change schools in Leeds, you need to make a school transfer – often called an in-year application.
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. This means 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 most other Leeds schools at the same time on this form.
If you have moved house, please upload evidence of the house move with the online application. You can find out what you need to provide on the above website.
If you are applying for admission under our faith criteria, you will also need to send to our school (not the local authority) a completed Supplementary Information Form (SIF).
We have to offer places by applying our admission policy criteria to your child’s application and we will contact you with our decision about offering you a place. We will tell you our decision no later than 15 schools days from when you apply.
If we cannot offer you a place, we will
Our waiting lists are kept until 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 you are not offered a place at the school you requested, you will have the right of appeal. The appeal panel is independent of the school and council and the 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:
Abbey Grange sixth form has 25 places available in Year 12 for external applicants, subject to entry requirements being met.
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.
External applicants should apply through the Leeds Pathways website, with the log in details provided by their present school.
