School admissions in Hungerford
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 1 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.
Hungerford in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 6 schools in Hungerford first 102 times for 101 places: 1.01 first choices per place. One of the 6 had more first choices than places.
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
6 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Chilton Foliat Church of England Primary School | 1.29 | 17 |
| Lambourn CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 13 |
| Hungerford Primary School | 0.98 | 43 |
| Kintbury St Mary's C.E. Primary School | 0.92 | 13 |
| Shefford C.E. Primary School | 0.89 | 9 |
| Inkpen Primary School | 0.83 | 6 |
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.