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School admissions in Kendal

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

16 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
Castle Park SchoolKendal1.0030
Crosscrake CofE Primary SchoolKendal1.005
Crosthwaite CofE SchoolKendal1.009
Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, KendalKendal1.0014
Ghyllside Primary SchoolKendal1.0059
Grayrigg CofE SchoolKendal1.0013
Heron Hill Primary SchoolKendal1.0056
Levens CofE SchoolKendal1.0013
Old Hutton CofE SchoolKendal1.006
Selside Endowed CofE Primary SchoolKendal1.004
St Oswald's CofE Primary SchoolKendal1.006
St Patrick's CofE SchoolKendal1.0011
St Thomas's CofE Primary SchoolKendal1.0023
Staveley CofE SchoolKendal1.0010
Stramongate Primary SchoolKendal1.0019
Vicarage Park CofE Primary SchoolKendal1.005

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.