School admissions in Godalming
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 14 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.
Godalming in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 9 schools in Godalming first 354 times for 353 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 0.99 across the Surrey authority's 247 schools. 3 of the 9 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 2 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.20 miles (Farncombe Church of England Infant School) to 1.65 miles (Witley CofE Controlled Infant School).
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. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farncombe Church of England Infant School | 1.63 | 30 | 0.327 km (≈0.20 mi) |
| Loseley Fields Primary School | 1.22 | 59 | not published |
| Busbridge Infant School | 1.20 | 60 | 1.137 km (≈0.71 mi) |
| Witley CofE Controlled Infant School | 0.97 | 30 | 2.659 km (≈1.65 mi) |
| St James CofE Aided Primary School | 0.93 | 27 | not published |
| St Mark and All Saints Church of England Primary | 0.89 | 27 | not published |
| St Edmund's Catholic Primary School | 0.83 | 30 | not published |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | 0.80 | 30 | not published |
| Moss Lane School | 0.57 | 60 | 0.916 km (≈0.57 mi) |
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.