School admissions in Hampton
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 5 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.
Hampton in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 4 schools in Hampton first 249 times for 246 places: 1.01 first choices per place, against 1.01 across the Richmond upon Thames authority's 40 schools. One of the 4 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Hampton Infant School and Nursery, to 1.66 miles.
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
4 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Infant School and Nursery | 1.13 | 119 | 2669 m (≈1.66 mi) |
| Buckingham Primary School | 0.93 | 28 | 1631 m (≈1.01 mi) |
| St Mary's Hampton Church of England Primary | 0.89 | 19 | not published |
| Carlisle Infant School | 0.89 | 80 | 2.392 km (≈1.49 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.