School admissions in Daventry
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.
Daventry in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 14 schools in Daventry first 341 times for 347 places: 0.98 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the West Northamptonshire authority's 148 schools. 3 of the 14 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
14 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Monksmoor Park Church of England Primary School | 1.21 | 28 |
| Staverton Church of England Voluntary Primary School | 1.13 | 15 |
| Braunston Church of England Primary School | 1.07 | 29 |
| Byfield School | 1.00 | 14 |
| DSLV E-ACT Academy | 1.00 | 26 |
| E-ACT The Grange School | 1.00 | 28 |
| Newnham Primary School | 1.00 | 10 |
| St James Infant School | 1.00 | 45 |
| Falconer's Hill Infant School | 0.96 | 51 |
| Ashby Fields Primary School | 0.89 | 55 |
| Woodford Halse Church of England Primary Academy | 0.89 | 18 |
| Welton Church of England Academy | 0.87 | 15 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Aston-le-Walls | 0.86 | 7 |
| Boddington Church of England Primary Academy | 0.50 | 6 |
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.