School admissions in Cramlington
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. None of these schools has 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.
Cramlington in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 12 schools in Cramlington first 411 times for 415 places: 0.99 first choices per place. 3 of the 12 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
12 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Burnside Primary School | 1.35 | 60 |
| Beaconhill Community Primary School | 1.27 | 30 |
| Eastlea Primary School | 1.17 | 29 |
| Cramlington Village Primary School | 1.00 | 11 |
| Ss Peter and Paul's Catholic Primary Academy | 1.00 | 26 |
| Fordley Primary School | 0.95 | 42 |
| Seghill First School | 0.93 | 14 |
| Hareside Primary School | 0.91 | 57 |
| Cramlington Shanklea Primary School | 0.89 | 36 |
| Burradon Community Primary School | 0.79 | 29 |
| Cragside CofE Controlled Primary School | 0.78 | 51 |
| Cramlington Northburn Primary School | 0.70 | 30 |
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.