School admissions in Accrington

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. Sorted by first preferences per place. We don't invent rankings: the order is arithmetic on a published figure, not a view about which school is better.

Reception places, September 2026

25 schools. 7 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Accrington St John with St Augustine Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	1.53	30
St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, AccringtonAccrington	1.53	19
Clayton-le-Moors All Saints' Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	1.33	30
Oswaldtwistle Hippings Methodist Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolAccrington	1.33	30
St John's Stonefold CofE Primary SchoolAccrington	1.30	20
Accrington Woodnook Primary SchoolAccrington	1.10	30
Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary SchoolAccrington	1.02	59
Green Haworth Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	1.00	6
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Clayton-le-MoorsAccrington	1.00	10
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, OswaldtwistleAccrington	0.97	39
Oswaldtwistle Moor End Primary SchoolAccrington	0.97	29
Accrington Huncoat Primary SchoolAccrington	0.96	28
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, ChurchAccrington	0.96	24
Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary SchoolAccrington	0.95	40
Oswaldtwistle St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.93	27
Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary SchoolAccrington	0.92	37
St Nicholas Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.91	23
Accrington Benjamin Hargreaves Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.88	16
Oswaldtwistle St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.85	13
Accrington Peel Park Primary SchoolAccrington	0.85	71
Baxenden St John's Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.83	30
Altham St James Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.82	11
Accrington St Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary SchoolAccrington	0.78	27
St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyAccrington	0.75	12
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolAccrington	0.50	12

First preferences per place is the number of families naming the school first, divided by its published admission number. Above 1.00 means more first choices than places. It is not a ranking and not a measure of quality: a popular school can be easy to get into and a quiet one hard, because places are allocated by each school's own criteria, siblings and faith and banding first, with distance often the last tie-breaker. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE.

Year 7 places, September 2026

5 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnAccrington	1.31	160
Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High SchoolAccrington	1.29	190
The HollinsAccrington	1.01	152
Accrington AcademyAccrington	0.83	199
RhyddingsAccrington	0.53	129