School admissions in Melton Mowbray

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. None of these schools has 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.

Melton Mowbray in figures

For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 20 schools in Melton Mowbray first 411 times for 411 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Leicestershire authority's 225 schools. 3 of the 20 had more first choices than places.

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

20 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Asfordby Hill Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.35	26
Great Dalby SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.20	20
Scalford Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.17	12
Harby Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.00	10
Hose Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.00	2
Long Clawson Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.00	9
Saint Francis Catholic Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.00	25
Somerby Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.00	6
St Peter's Church of England Primary School WymondhamMelton Mowbray	1.00	4
Stathern Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	1.00	15
Swallowdale Primary School and Community CentreMelton Mowbray	0.98	46
Old Dalby Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.96	27
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.96	25
Brownlow Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.96	48
The Grove Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.96	23
Frisby Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.93	14
Sherard Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.93	56
Waltham on the Wolds Church of England Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.92	13
Ab Kettleby Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.91	11
Captains Close Primary SchoolMelton Mowbray	0.89	19

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.