School admissions in Bedale
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 1 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.
Bedale in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 5 schools in Bedale first 85 times for 88 places: 0.97 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the North Yorkshire authority's 280 schools. One of the 5 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
5 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | 1.11 | 19 |
| Bedale Church of England Primary School | 0.97 | 32 |
| Hunton and Arrathorne Community Primary School | 0.94 | 18 |
| Crakehall Church of England Primary School | 0.92 | 12 |
| Snape Community Primary School | 0.71 | 7 |
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.