School admissions in Basingstoke

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

30 schools. 9 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Hounsome Fields Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.56	27
Rucstall Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.33	30
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.27	30
St Mark's Church of England Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.23	87
Castle Hill Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.21	57
Great Binfields Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.17	59
St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.16	44
Marnel Community Infant SchoolBasingstoke	1.15	117
Sherborne St John Church of England Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.12	16
Preston Candover Church of England Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.00	16
South View Infant and Nursery SchoolBasingstoke	1.00	51
St Bede's Catholic Primary SchoolBasingstoke	1.00	60
Overton Church of England Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.98	53
Four Lanes Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.98	90
Oakley Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.97	59
Park View Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.93	46
Kings Furlong Infant School and NurseryBasingstoke	0.89	37
Chalk Ridge Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.89	27
Castle Hill Infant SchoolBASINGSTOKE	0.88	52
Manor Field Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.88	50
Oakridge Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.88	88
Fairfields Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.86	50
Old Basing Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.83	77
Hatch Warren Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.82	50
Chiltern Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.82	22
Winklebury Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.81	26
Kempshott Infant SchoolBasingstoke	0.79	73
Merton Infant School and NurseryBasingstoke	0.78	46
North Waltham Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.78	23
Cliddesden Primary SchoolBasingstoke	0.75	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

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

School	First preferences per place	Places
Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary SchoolBasingstoke	1.75	166
The Vyne Community SchoolBasingstoke	1.30	135
CranbourneBasingstoke	1.06	224
Brighton Hill Community SchoolBasingstoke	0.99	242
The Costello SchoolBasingstoke	0.89	211
Everest Community AcademyBasingstoke	0.87	141
The Blue Coat School BasingstokeBasingstoke	0.31	180