School admissions in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. None of these schools has 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.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 7 schools in Ashby-de-la-Zouch first 208 times for 192 places: 1.08 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Leicestershire authority's 225 schools. 3 of the 7 had more first choices than places.
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
7 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Ashby Hastings Primary School | 1.47 | 30 |
| Ashby Hill Top Primary School | 1.32 | 44 |
| Packington Church of England Primary School | 1.20 | 15 |
| Ashby Willesley Primary School | 0.92 | 59 |
| Worthington School | 0.86 | 7 |
| Woodcote Primary School | 0.83 | 12 |
| Ashby-de-la-Zouch Church of England Primary School | 0.72 | 25 |
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.