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School admissions in Heywood

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

8 schools. 4 received more first preferences than they had places.

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
All Souls Church of England Primary SchoolHeywood1.4330
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolHeywood1.4159
Hopwood Community Primary SchoolHeywood1.1360
St Michael's Church of England Primary School, BamfordHeywood1.1331
Our Lady & St Paul's RC Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyHeywood0.8121
Harwood Park Primary SchoolHeywood0.7929
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Rochdale, a Voluntary AcademyHeywood0.7557
Woodland Community Primary SchoolHeywood0.6560

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

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

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England CollegeHeywood1.27142
Edgar Wood AcademyHeywood0.6876
Newhouse AcademyHeywood0.63207

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.