Year 7 Admissions
Open Events for September 2025 Admissions
We are hosting an Open Evening and Open Mornings. For further information on our open events, please check our dedicated page.
Leigh Academy Blackheath has an agreed published admission number of 180 Year 7 students for September 2025 entry.
Process of Application and How to Apply
We highly recommended you read our admission arrangements before applying for a place at Leigh Academy Blackheath.
Secondary Common Application Form
To apply for a place at Leigh Academy Blackheath, an applicant must apply through the local education authority and name the school as one of their choices –
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Fair Banding Test & Supplementary Form
For 2025/26 admissions, all Year 6 primary students who name Leigh Academy Blackheath in their list of preferences are required to sit the LAT SE London fair banding test. This is to ensure that children across the full ability range are admitted. It is not possible to pass or fail the test, but those not sitting the test at all, will only be prioritised after those children who have sat the test.
Applications for the Fair Banding Test are now closed
In order to be invited to the test, an online supplementary form must be completed by the closing date of 31st October 2024. Paper copies are available from the Academy if you do not have access to the Internet.
Please contact admissions@leighacademyblackheath.org.uk if you require any more information.
The applicants will be split into 5 equally sized bands based on their assessment results. Within each band our admission criteria will be applied as set out in our determined admission arrangements.
Fair Banding Tests will be held at one of the Leigh Academies Trust Schools in the South East London Cluster. Parents and Carers will be notified of the venue and time of their child’s test via post, email or phone.
The test is a non verbal reasoning paper and free resources can be downloaded via the GL Assessment website.
GL Assessment Website 11+ Papers
Key Dates
- Fair Banding Test: Saturday 5th October, Saturday 23rd & Tuesday 26th November 2024
- Closing date for SCAF and LAT Supplementary Form: Thursday 31st October 2024
- National Offer Day: Monday 3rd March 2025
To view the Royal Borough of Greenwich Admission Policy please visit
Parents wishing to apply for a place in Leigh Academy Blackheath from outside the Royal Borough of Greenwich should apply to their own Local Authority.
Post-16 Admissions
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Open Events for September 2025 Admissions
We are hosting an Open Evening and an Open Morning for LAB16. For further information on our open events, please check our dedicated page.
Applications to LAB16
Applications to LAB16 for September 2025 admissions will open soon
Further LAB16 Information
Please click here to view our course guide and details on the IB Diploma and Careers-related programmes
Please contact lab16@leighacademyblackheath.org.uk if you require any more information.
To view more information about our Post-16 provision, please visit our LAB16 page here.
In-Year Admissions
Applicants applying for a place at Leigh Academy Blackheath need to apply directly to the Academy.
Places are admitted in line with our admission arrangements. We highly recommend you read our admission arrangements before applying for a place at Leigh Academy Blackheath.
Please contact us by email if you require further information: info@leighacademyblackheath.org.uk. The process regarding children admitted by the Fair Access Panel will be in line with Greenwich Local Authority’s published arrangements.
Please visit the Royal Borough of Greenwich website to view their Admission Policy. For more information, email: contact-centre@greenwich.gov.uk or call Greenwich Contact Centre on 020 8291 8043.
Outcomes of In-Year Admission Applications will be sent within fifteen working days of us receiving your application.
Appeals
If you have not been offered a place following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority. In accordance with the 2022 School Admission Appeals Code Appeals, the admission authority and panels have elected for all admissions appeals to be held online.
If you wish to appeal, please use this link to complete your appeal online. Please do NOT use ANY other appeal form or send your form to your local authority. It is highly recommended that you download the explanatory booklet about appeals which you should read before you complete the appeal form.
You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST state the grounds of your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you give the grounds of your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school.
Please note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated in the last THREE months. If you do not have access to a scanner, please take two photographs using a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.
If you wish to contact the clerk – email : clerk@educationappeals.com
Information about Secondary Transfer appeals will be posted on this website before 28 February 2025.
Timetable for Appeals
Last day for lodging appeal forms
20 School days after the decision letter informing you that you had not been offered a place.
Invitation letter giving details about your hearing will be sent by the Clerk to the Independent Appeal Panel
At least 10 school days before the hearing. This MAY be emailed.
All in-year appeals will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal form being lodged.
Closing date for any additional supporting evidence
FIVE working days before your hearing. You are advised that additional paperwork received on the day of the appeal hearing will not be taken into account. Please email files to clerk@educationappeals.com
Please note that slightly different rules will apply for any summer transfer appeals into Year 7.
Letter from the Clerk informing you of the decision of the independent appeal panel
Due to the high number of appeals, an email is sent a few working days after your hearing with the decision of the panel. This is followed up around 10 working days later with a letter outlining the panels’ reasons.
Sixth Form Applications Appeals
Last day for Lodging appeals
4pm on Thursday 31 August 2024 to guarantee that your appeal will be heard in early to mid-September. You MUST state the reasons for your appeal on the online form and supply any documentary evidence at this stage to include a copy of your result sheet.
Please note the timetable is very short to enable those appellants who win appeals to start as early into the school year as possible.
The form will only be available from results day.
Click here for the 6th form appeal form. If this link does not work, it means you are too late to appeal.
The appeal will be during the month of September 2024.
