School admissions in Brierley Hill
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 6 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.
Brierley Hill in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 11 schools in Brierley Hill first 375 times for 401 places: 0.94 first choices per place, against 0.99 across the Dudley authority's 77 schools. One of the 11 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 2 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.33 miles (The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School) to 0.92 miles (Quarry Bank Primary School).
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
11 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School | 1.20 | 30 | 536 m (≈0.33 mi) |
| Brierley Hill Primary School | 1.00 | 16 | 1473 m (≈0.92 mi) |
| Quarry Bank Primary School | 0.98 | 45 | 1476 m (≈0.92 mi) |
| Mount Pleasant Primary School | 0.98 | 44 | 1898 m (≈1.18 mi) |
| Withymoor Primary School | 0.96 | 49 | 1220 m (≈0.76 mi) |
| Thorns Primary School | 0.96 | 24 | not published |
| St Mary's RC Primary School | 0.93 | 14 | not published |
| Brockmoor Primary School | 0.92 | 49 | not published |
| Peters Hill Primary School | 0.87 | 62 | not published |
| St Mark's CofE Primary School | 0.80 | 44 | not published |
| Hawbush Primary School | 0.79 | 24 | 1137 m (≈0.71 mi) |
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.