School admissions in Great Yarmouth

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

28 schools. 8 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Rollesby Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.60	10
Filby Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.21	14
Caister Infant With Nursery SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.13	60
Ormiston Herman AcademyGreat Yarmouth	1.11	54
Homefield VC CofE Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.07	30
Hillside Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.04	24
Ormesby Village Infant SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.04	28
Edward Worlledge Ormiston AcademyGreat Yarmouth	1.03	29
Catfield CofE Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	1.00	8
Cobholm Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	1.00	23
Southtown Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.00	14
St Mary and St Peter Catholic Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	1.00	19
St Nicholas Priory CofE VA Primary School and NurseryGreat Yarmouth	1.00	56
St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great YarmouthGreat Yarmouth	1.00	26
Wroughton Infant AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.98	44
Peterhouse CofE Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.97	37
Woodlands Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.96	57
Hopton Church of England Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.95	21
Ormiston Cliff Park Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.94	47
Martham Academy and NurseryGreat Yarmouth	0.93	30
Great Yarmouth Primary Academy and NurseryGreat Yarmouth	0.93	28
Hemsby Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	0.92	12
Moorlands CofE Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.91	32
Stradbroke Primary AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.89	19
Northgate Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	0.89	46
Fleggburgh CofE Primary SchoolGreat Yarmouth	0.88	8
North Denes Primary School and NurseryGreat Yarmouth	0.87	30
Winterton Primary School and NurseryGreat Yarmouth	0.75	4

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.

Year 7 places, September 2026

5 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Lynn Grove AcademyGreat Yarmouth	1.10	220
Great Yarmouth Charter AcademyGreat Yarmouth	1.00	160
Caister AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.95	146
Flegg High Ormiston AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.95	81
Cliff Park Ormiston AcademyGreat Yarmouth	0.44	172