School admissions in Ilkeston
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
14 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Field House Infant School | 1.20 | 59 |
| Dallimore Primary & Nursery School | 1.00 | 45 |
| Horsley Woodhouse Primary School | 1.00 | 8 |
| Mapperley CofE Controlled Primary School | 1.00 | 9 |
| Morley Primary School | 1.00 | 11 |
| St Thomas Catholic Voluntary Academy | 1.00 | 30 |
| Charlotte Nursery and Infant School | 0.97 | 75 |
| Chaucer Infant School | 0.96 | 49 |
| Cotmanhay Infant and Nursery School | 0.94 | 48 |
| Ladywood Primary School | 0.94 | 31 |
| Scargill CofE Primary School | 0.93 | 45 |
| St Andrew's CofE Primary School | 0.88 | 8 |
| Larklands Infant School | 0.84 | 37 |
| Richardson Endowed Primary School | 0.83 | 29 |
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.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy | 1.09 | 208 |
| Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy | 0.97 | 106 |
| Kirk Hallam Community Academy | 0.84 | 100 |
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.