Apply for a primary or junior school place

National Offer Day

National Offer Day for reception and junior school places is 16 April 2026

The offer e-mail and responding to it

Offers will be emailed to online applicants on the evening of Thursday 16 April 2026. If you have not received your offer e-mail by Friday 17 April you should email school.admissions@brent.gov.uk

You can also check your offer outcome by logging in to your eAdmissions account.

You must accept or decline the offer by Monday 30 April 2026

When you are logged into your eAdmissions account, select 'View outcome and respond' from the homepage.

Please note:

you are encouraged to accept the offer that is made to ensure your child has a school place for September 2026.
declining the offer means the place may be given to the next child on the waiting list in the second round - it may not be possible to offer the same school again.
declining an offer will not increase the chance that you will be offered a higher preference school in the next round.
accepting an offer will not disadvantage an application for higher ranked schools or at appeals.

What happens next

There are two further rounds of offers as outlined in the table below. We will only contact you again if we are able to make an offer for one of your higher preference schools.

If you made a late application, after 15 January 2026, you will receive an offer letter at the end of the next round.

Date	Stage
16 April 2026	National offer day
30 April 2026	Response deadline
30 April 2026	Deadline for applications and changes for the second round
Week ending 15 May 2026	Second round offers
22 May 2026	Second round response deadline
29 May 2026	Deadline for applications and changes for the third round
Week ending 19 June 2026	Third round offers
26 June 2026	Third round response deadline
September 2026	Children start school

Schools with vacancies

Vacancies in Reception and Year 3 for September 2026 are available at the following schools in Brent. If you would like to change your application to choose one or more of these schools in a later round of offers, follow the procedure outlined below for changing your preferences.

Reception places

Anson Primary School
Barham Primary School
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
Donnington Primary School
Elsley Primary School
Fryent Primary School
Furness Primary School
Gladstone Park Primary School
Harlesden Primary School
Harris Primary Academy South Kenton
John Keble CofE Primary School
Kilburn Grange School
Kingsbury Green Primary School
Leopold Primary School
Lyon Park Primary School
Mora Primary School
Mount Stewart Infant School
Newfield Primary School
Oakington Manor Primary School
Preston Manor School
Preston Park Primary School
St Andrew and St Francis CofE Primary School
St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School
St Mary's CofE Primary School
St Mary's RC Primary School
Sudbury Primary School
The Stonebridge School
Wembley Primary School
Wykeham Primary School

Year 3 places

Mount Stewart Junior School
Our Lady of Grace RC Junior School
Roe Green Junior School
St Mary Magdalen's RC Junior School
The Kilburn Park School Foundation

If you would like to enquire about schools with vacancies in other local authorities you should contact them directly.

Please note, as further offers are made in the 2nd and 3rd rounds this list may change.

Waiting lists

Your child will be added to the waiting list automatically for any Brent schools listed as higher preferences on your application than the school offered.

Applications for schools listed as lower preferences than the offered school are withdrawn automatically.

For schools outside Brent you should contact the admissions authority for each school for details about how waiting lists are managed. e.g. whether your child is automatically added or if you have to request they remain on the waiting list.

Are you happy with your offer?

If you are happy with the offered school and no longer wish to be considered for the other schools you ranked as higher preferences on your application, you must request that your child is taken off the waiting list by emailing offer.acceptdecline@brent.gov.uk

Please note that if your child remains on waiting lists you may be automatically offered a higher preference school in the future. If this happens the current offer will be withdrawn automatically and it might not be possible to offer the same school again.

If you are unsure about whether to remain on the waiting list please seek advice from school admissions team by emailing school.admissions@brent.gov.uk

Changing your preferences or other details

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 may be withdrawn.

If we make a new offer based on a change of preferences, your original offer will be automatically withdrawn.

Appeal

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 refer to the waiting lists and appeals web page.

To 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 15 May 2026. 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.

How places were offered

Detailed information about how school places were offered on National Offer Day is available here after offers have been sent out on 16 April 2026.

If you require more information about how your application was ranked according to each school's oversubscription criteria, you can request this by emailing school.admissions@brent.gov.uk.

If it is not possible to offer any of the schools listed on your application then a place is offered at the nearest school to your home that has vacancies remaining after everyone who applied on-time has been offered.

You will automatically remain on the waiting list for the schools you listed on your application. You are not required to accept this offer, but it remains your responsibility to ensure your children attend school, so you must take action to secure an alternative school place eg. add schools with vacancies to your application.

To enquire about how an application was processed and considered for schools outside Brent you should contact the relevant local authority directly.

Contact details

Contact details for the Brent School Admissions team and School Admissions teams in neighbouring local authorities are available on page 62 of the Reception and Junior School Admissions Brochure 2026.

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 2025 – Applications open at eAdmissions
15 January 2026 - Applications deadline
16 April 2026 - National offer day
30 April 2026 - Response deadline

Second round of offers

30 April 2026 - deadline for applications and changes
Week ending 15 May 2026 - second round of offers are made
22 May 2026 - second round response deadline

Third round of offers

29 May 2026 - deadline for applications and changes
Week ending 19 June 2026 - third round offers
26 June 2026 - third round response deadline
September 2026 - children start school

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 were offered 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.

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 2025

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 by visiting Admissions criteria for schools in Brent.

How to apply for a primary school place

Apply for:

children born between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022 who will start Reception class at a primary or infant school in September 2026
children born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019 who currently attend an infant school and will transfer to junior school in September 2026.

The deadline to submit your on-time application is Thursday, 15 January 2026.

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

Applications open from 1st September 2025 – you cannot start an application before this date.

Important information about how to apply

Your address

Use your child’s permanent home address on 15 January 2026
Do not use the address of a relative or someone who provides temporary care for your child, a business address, a childminder’s 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 the 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.

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Late applications

We strongly encourage you to make an on-time application.

Applications received after 23:59 on 15 January 2026 will be processed as late applications and you will not receive an outcome 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 applicants who did not receive an offer at their highest preferences schools and who have remained on the waiting list.