Primary and infant waiting list and oversubscribed schools

Waiting lists

For all of the schools listed, parents or carers can apply for their child's name to be held on a waiting list following the expiry date. 

The following shows how long your child's name will be held on the waiting lists.

Waiting list for primary and infant schools that expire on 25 March 2027

This includes the following schools:

• Leagrave Primary School (Foundation)
• Someries Infant School (Foundation)

Waiting list for primary and infant schools that expire on 31 July 2027

This includes the following schools:

• Beech Hill Primary School (Community)
• Beechwood Primary School (Community)
• Bramingham Primary School (Community)
• Bushmead Primary School (Community)
• Chantry Primary Academy (Academy)
• Crawley Green Infant School (Foundation)
• Cutenhoe Hill Primary School (Community)
• Dallow Primary School (Academy)
• Denbigh Primary School (Community)
• Downside Primary School (Community)
• Foxdell Primary School (Community)
• Hillborough Infant School (Community)
• lcknield Primary School (Community)
• Maidenhall Primary School (Community)
• Norton Road Primary School (Community)
• Parklea Primary School (Community)
• Pirton Hill Primary School (Community)
• Putteridge Primary School (Community)
• Ramridge Primary School (Community)
• River Bank Primary School (Free school)
• Sacred Heart Primary School (Voluntary aided (Catholic)
• St Josephs Primary School (Voluntary aided (Catholic)
• St Margaret of Scotland Primary (Voluntary aided (Catholic)
• St Martin de Porres Primary (Voluntary aided (Catholic)
• St Matthews Primary School (Community)
• Southfield Primary School (Academy)
• Stopsley Primary School (Community)
• Tennyson Road Primary School (Academy)
• The Ferrars Academy (Academy)
• The Linden Academy (Free school)
• The Meads Primary School (Community)
• Warden Hill Infant Academy (Academy)
• Waulud Primary School (Community)
• Whipperley Infant Academy (Academy)
• Whitefield Primary School (Academy)
• Wigmore Primary School (Community)
• William Austin Infant School (Community)

If you want to add or remove your child from the waiting list or know how the process works, then read our waiting list process page.

Oversubscribed schools

The infant, primary schools and junior schools listed below have been unable to accommodate all children who stated the school as a preference. Places were allocated in accordance with the council’s or school’s admissions criteria.

Beechwood Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria:

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion.

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was able to accommodate all children who met this criterion.

Bramingham Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria: 

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion.

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.  There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.  
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Bushmead Primary and Nursery School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria: 

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion. 

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted. There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school. 
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority.  The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Dallow Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria:

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion.

1. Looked after children and previously looked after children including those that appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Children of staff currently employed at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion. 
3. Children in the catchment area with siblings at the school who will still be attending the school at the proposed date of admission.
4. Children living in the catchment area of the school. 
5. Children who live outside of the catchment area with siblings at the school who will still be attending the school at the proposed date of admission.
6. Children living closest to the school measured on straight line distance. The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Denbigh Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria:

Children with an Education Health Care plan. 

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.  There were no applications that met this criterion. 
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school. 
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority.  The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Hillborough Infant and Nursery School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria: 

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion.

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.  There were no applications that met this criterion. 
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school. 
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Leagrave Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria: 

Children with an Education Health Care plan.  

1. A looked after child or a child who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.  
2. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion. 
3. Children in the catchment area with sibling(s) already at the school at the proposed date of admission.
4. Children living in the catchment area of the school.
5. Children who live outside of the catchment area with siblings at the school who will still be attending the school at the proposed date of admission. 
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority.  The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Ramridge Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria:

Children with an Education Health Care plan.  

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion. 
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria: 

Children with an Education Health Care plan.  

1. A looked after child or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.  There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Children of staff who are employed by the school. 
3. Children in the catchment area with a sibling or siblings already attending Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre or Someries Junior School at the proposed date of admission.
4. Children living in the catchment area of Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre.
5. Children who live outside of the catchment area with siblings at Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre and/or Someries Junior School who will still be attending Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre and/or Someries Junior School at the proposed date of admission. 
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority.  The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

St Matthews Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria:

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion.

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.  There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Tennyson Road Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria: 

Children with an Education Health Care plan. There were no applications that met this criterion.

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted. There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school. 
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was not able to accommodate all children who met this criterion; therefore, the children living closest to the school were allocated a place.

Waulud Primary School

The school was able to accommodate applications that met the following criteria:

Children with an Education Health Care plan.  There were no applications that met this criterion. 

1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order including those who appear to the council to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted. There were no applications that met this criterion.
2. Brothers and sisters of pupils attending the school or the linked junior school when the pupil starts at the school.
3. Pupils living in the catchment area of the school.  
4. On medical grounds supported by medical evidence. There were no applications that met this criterion.
5. Children of staff who work at the school. There were no applications that met this criterion.
6. On the shortest distance, measured in a straight line, between the main entrance of the school site and the pupil’s home address, with those living closer to the school being accorded higher priority. The school was able to accommodate all children who met this criterion.