Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a well-established, thriving Catholic school with a reputation for the very highest standards, outstanding students and exceptional staff. We instil a love of learning inspired by high quality teaching which develops individual strengths and talents. We encourage and celebrate creativity, original thinking, imagination, effort and achievement. Take a look at our latest achievements and all the exciting events that have taken place in our school community by checking out our Veritas newsletters – just follow this link: Veritas Newsletters.
Admissions
We are a voluntary aided school and the admission authority is our Governing Body. The school’s admission authority sets the admission policy every year. You can read our school’s admission polices by following the appropriate link below:
In-year applications to start at our school between September 2025 and July 2026 – read our 2025/26 policy and SIF
Applications for Year 7 places in September 2026 – read our 2026/27 policy and SIF
How to apply for a September 2026 Year 7 place
If you are applying for a Year 7 place for September 2026, all applications are made in advance. The national closing date is 31 October 2025. Offers are made by the Local Authority on national offer day (2 March 2026).
Our Published Admission Number (PAN) is 185 and this is the number of places the school can admit in Year 7 in 2026.
You must apply to the local authority who empties your bins. If this is Leeds, go to www.leeds.gov.uk/apply. The LA website is a composite prospectus for all Leeds schools and includes information about:
- all the steps you need to go through to make an application
- the key dates
- a search tool to see if your home address gives any higher priority for admission to any school(s)
- a search tool to see if your home address gives any higher priority for admission to any school(s)
- an explanation about how places are offered if there are more applications than spaces (oversubscribed)
- the online application portal – apply online to be sent your offer day letter by email
- a summary of each school’s individual admission policy criteria
- data about who got a place in the last 3 years – this will help you work out if there is a reasonable chance of your child qualifying for a place.
Information about applying under a specific admission criteria (such as your child being previously looked after). It is important to ensure you submit all supporting evidence by the deadline to show you meet any such criteria.
If you are applying for admission under a faith criteria, you will need to send to our school (not the local authority) a completed Supplementary Information Form (SIF) along with proof of baptism to admissions@cardinalheenan.com or alternatively post to Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, Tongue Lane, Leeds, LS6 4QE by 31 October 2025.
Please make sure you list Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School as one of your preferences. If you do not, you will not have made a valid application for this school.
You can also watch the Leeds City Council school admissions video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRU1SrS7iJE for more information.
You can also see information about our school, including previous admission data, on our school page on the Leeds City Council’s website by following this link.
Application timetable
The below timetable applies to applications made to Leeds City Council. If you apply to another local authority, they may have different dates
| Children born between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015 are due to start Year 7 in September 2026
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1 September 2025 | Applications open. You can apply online at www.leeds.gov.uk/apply
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31 October 2025 | National deadline for applying for Year 7 2026 places
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28 November 2025 | Deadline for making changes that will be considered as being on-time by our school
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31 December 2025 | Final date Leeds City Council uses for adding late applications or receiving change of address evidence
Any new applications received by Leeds City Council after this date will not be offered a school place until the first round of reallocations in April
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2 March 2026 | National offer day (first working day after 1 March)
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20 March 2026 | Deadline for · accepting your offer for a place at our school. · making any changes to your application before Leeds City Council carries out the first reallocation of places
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31 March 2026 | Any Year 7 appeals received by this date will be heard before the summer holiday Leeds City Council arranges our appeals
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April to end of August 2026 | Any available Year 7 places are automatically allocated from waiting lists by Leeds City Council
Lower preference school offers are also withdrawn automatically (even if accepted)
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May to July 2026 | Appeals heard by independent appeal panels
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September 2026 | Start secondary school
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