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School admissions in Maldon

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

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

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
All Saints Maldon Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolMaldon1.4045
Wentworth Primary SchoolMaldon1.1360
St Francis Catholic Primary School, MaldonMaldon1.0730
Great Totham Primary SchoolMaldon1.0559
Tollesbury SchoolMaldon0.9623
Limebrook Primary School and NurseryMaldon0.9330
Woodham Walter Church of England Primary AcademyMaldon0.8312
Maldon Primary SchoolMaldon0.8121
Heybridge Primary SchoolMaldon0.8055
Tolleshunt D'Arcy St Nicholas Primary AcademyMaldon0.8025

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.