School admissions in Calne
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.
Calne in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 9 schools in Calne first 214 times for 214 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Wiltshire authority's 194 schools. 2 of the 9 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
9 schools. 2 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Trinity Church of England Academy | 1.27 | 30 |
| Heddington Church of England Primary School | 1.10 | 10 |
| Derry Hill Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | 1.00 | 28 |
| Priestley Primary School | 1.00 | 35 |
| Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School | 1.00 | 3 |
| Fynamore Primary School | 0.95 | 60 |
| Hilmarton Primary School | 0.93 | 14 |
| Marden Vale CofE Academy | 0.93 | 14 |
| Cherhill CofE School | 0.80 | 20 |
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.