School admissions in Market Drayton
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
12 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adderley CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 5 | not published |
| Buntingsdale Primary School and Nursery | 1.00 | 8 | not published |
| Cheswardine Primary and Nursery School | 1.00 | 5 | not published |
| Hinstock Primary School | 1.00 | 13 | not published |
| Hugo Meynell CofE (VC) Primary School | 1.00 | 30 | 0.394 miles |
| Longlands Primary School | 1.00 | 20 | not published |
| Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School | 1.00 | 53 | not published |
| Moreton Say CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 10 | 2.164 miles |
| Norton-in-Hales CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 10 | not published |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 7 | not published |
| Stoke-on-Tern Primary School | 1.00 | 12 | not published |
| Hodnet Primary School | 0.93 | 29 | 4.969 miles |
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.