School admissions in Aldershot
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 7 of these schools also have a published admissions cutoff distance. 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.
Aldershot in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 9 schools in Aldershot first 456 times for 456 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Hampshire authority's 324 schools. 3 of the 9 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Talavera Infant School, to 1.06 miles.
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
Reception places, September 2026
9 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | 1.35 | 69 | not published |
| Talavera Infant School | 1.02 | 89 | 1.06 miles |
| The Cambridge Primary School | 1.02 | 60 | not published |
| Park Primary School | 1.00 | 13 | not published |
| Alderwood School | 0.98 | 64 | 0.83 miles |
| Stanhope Primary School | 0.89 | 18 | not published |
| St Michael's Church of England Controlled Infant School | 0.85 | 68 | 2.75 miles |
| Wellington Community Primary School | 0.82 | 56 | 1.08 miles |
| Marlborough Infant School | 0.79 | 19 | 1.3 miles |
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.