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School admissions in Brentwood

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

17 schools. 10 received more first preferences than they had places.

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, South WealdBrentwood1.8360
Mountnessing Church of England Primary SchoolBrentwood1.5030
Shenfield St. Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolBrentwood1.4659
Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary SchoolBrentwood1.2715
Doddinghurst Infant SchoolBrentwood1.2260
Bentley St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolBrentwood1.1428
Hutton All Saints' Church of England Primary SchoolBrentwood1.1030
West Horndon Primary SchoolBrentwood1.1030
Willowbrook Primary SchoolBrentwood1.0730
St Helen's Catholic Infant & Nursery SchoolBrentwood1.0560
Holly Trees Primary SchoolBrentwood0.9260
Ingrave Johnstone Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolBrentwood0.9029
Hogarth Primary SchoolBrentwood0.8730
Larchwood Primary SchoolBrentwood0.8060
Warley Primary SchoolBrentwood0.7260
Long Ridings Primary SchoolBrentwood0.6860
St Thomas of Canterbury Church of England Aided Primary School, BrentwoodBrentwood0.4875

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

5 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
Becket Keys Church of England Free SchoolBrentwood1.56176
St Martin's School BrentwoodBrentwood0.91316
Shenfield High SchoolBrentwood0.81234
Brentwood Ursuline Convent High SchoolBrentwood0.77175
Brentwood County High SchoolBrentwood0.59205

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.