School admissions in Arundel
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 2 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.
Arundel in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 6 schools in Arundel first 161 times for 165 places: 0.98 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the West Sussex authority's 208 schools. One of the 6 had more first choices than places. For 2025 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: St Philip's Catholic Primary School, to 0.47 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
6 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arundel CofE Primary School | 1.28 | 29 | 894.88 m (≈0.56 mi) |
| St Philip's Catholic Primary School | 1.00 | 30 | 749.3 m (≈0.47 mi) |
| Yapton CE Primary School | 0.93 | 59 | not published |
| Walberton & Binsted CofE Primary School | 0.87 | 30 | not published |
| Slindon CofE Primary School | 0.82 | 11 | not published |
| Amberley CofE Primary School | 0.67 | 6 | not published |
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.