This year, National Offer Day for primary school places in England is Thursday April 16. Parents will be notified by Leeds City Council about which schools their child has been accepted into.
While generally the odds are quite good, unfortunately, some children will miss out. Nationwide, about 92.6% got into their first choice of primary school for the 2025/26 school year.
Ahead of National Offer Day, we’ve taken a look at the Department of Education’s latest data on schools across the Leeds City Council area, comparing how many parents put each one down as their top pick, with how many first-choice offers were actually sent out.
Here were the city’s toughest primary schools to get into for the current school year:
7. Horsforth Featherbank Primary School
46 parents put this maintained primary school out in Horsforth down as their top pick. But just 29 first choice offers were handed out – a success rate of about 63% | Google
8. Talbot Primary School
95 parents put this maintained primary school in Roundhay down as their top pick. But just 60 first choice offers were handed out – a success rate of just over 63%. | Google
9. Roundhay St John's Church of England Primary School
34 parents put this primary academy in the Roundhay area down as their top pick. But just 25 first choice offers were handed out – a success rate of over 73%. | Google
10. Beecroft Primary School
57 parents put this maintained primary school in the Kirkstall area down as their top pick. But just 42 first choice offers were handed out – a success rate of nearly 74%. | Yorkshire Post Newspapers
11. Cookridge Primary School
57 parents put this maintained primary school in the Cookridge area down as their top pick. But just 42 first choice offers were handed out – one again a success rate of nearly 74%. | Google
12. Bardsey Primary Academy
39 parents put this primary academy out in Bardsey down as their top pick. Some 30 first choice offers were handed out – a success rate of just under 77%. | Google