School admissions in Catterick Garrison
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.
Catterick Garrison in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 6 schools in Catterick Garrison first 163 times for 156 places: 1.04 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the North Yorkshire authority's 280 schools. One of the 6 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
6 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Cambrai Primary School | 1.63 | 30 |
| Colburn Community Primary School | 0.96 | 26 |
| Wavell Community Primary School | 0.94 | 17 |
| Carnagill Community Primary School | 0.93 | 15 |
| Catterick Garrison, Le Cateau Community Primary School | 0.88 | 52 |
| Hipswell Church of England Primary School | 0.81 | 16 |
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.