School admissions in Banstead
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.
Banstead in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 4 schools in Banstead first 210 times for 236 places: 0.89 first choices per place, against 0.99 across the Surrey authority's 247 schools. 0 of the 4 had more first choices than places. For 2020 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Warren Mead Infant School, to 1.35 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
4 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banstead Infant School and Nursery | 0.92 | 60 | not published |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | 0.92 | 59 | not published |
| Warren Mead Infant School | 0.88 | 57 | 2.166 km (≈1.35 mi) |
| Woodmansterne Primary School | 0.85 | 60 | 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.