School admissions in Malton
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 3 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.
Malton in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 11 schools in Malton first 190 times for 187 places: 1.02 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the North Yorkshire authority's 280 schools. One of the 11 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Amotherby Community Primary School, to 3.81 miles.
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
11 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy | 1.40 | 30 | not published |
| Amotherby Community Primary School | 1.00 | 30 | 3.814 miles |
| Langton Primary School | 1.00 | 11 | not published |
| Leavening Community Primary School | 1.00 | 6 | not published |
| Luttons Community Primary Academy | 1.00 | 1 | not published |
| Rillington Primary School | 1.00 | 14 | not published |
| Sherburn Church of England Primary Academy | 1.00 | 2 | not published |
| West Heslerton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | 1.00 | 5 | not published |
| Norton Community Primary School | 0.98 | 55 | not published |
| Settrington All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | 0.91 | 11 | not published |
| Malton Primary Academy | 0.68 | 22 | not published |
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.