School admissions in Glossop

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 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.

Reception places, September 2026

13 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary AcademyGlossop	1.00	8
Charlesworth Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	17
Dinting Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	13
Duke of Norfolk CofE Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	29
Gamesley Primary and Nursery SchoolGlossop	1.00	27
Hadfield Infant SchoolGlossop	1.00	47
Padfield Community Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	16
St Charles' Catholic Voluntary AcademyGlossop	1.00	16
St Luke's CofE Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	22
St Margaret's Catholic Voluntary AcademyGlossop	1.00	7
St Mary's Catholic Voluntary AcademyGlossop	1.00	12
Tintwistle CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	15
Whitfield St James' CofE (VC) Primary SchoolGlossop	1.00	29

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.