School admissions in Mitcham
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 11 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.
Mitcham in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 14 schools in Mitcham first 460 times for 475 places: 0.97 first choices per place. 2 of the 14 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 2 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.44 miles (St Mark's Primary School) to 1.12 miles (Culvers House Primary School).
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
14 schools. 2 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mark's Primary School | 1.28 | 29 | 714.37 m (≈0.44 mi) |
| Harris Primary Academy Merton | 1.10 | 60 | not published |
| Beecholme Primary School | 1.00 | 17 | 484.97 m (≈0.30 mi) |
| Culvers House Primary School | 0.98 | 59 | 1800.4 m (≈1.12 mi) |
| Gorringe Park Primary School | 0.96 | 49 | 886.91 m (≈0.55 mi) |
| Liberty Primary | 0.96 | 46 | 1425.23 m (≈0.89 mi) |
| Lonesome Primary School | 0.95 | 22 | 404 m (≈0.25 mi) |
| St Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School | 0.93 | 29 | not published |
| Benedict Academy | 0.93 | 28 | not published |
| William Morris Primary School | 0.89 | 28 | 594.05 m (≈0.37 mi) |
| Cranmer Primary School | 0.89 | 45 | 1627.11 m (≈1.01 mi) |
| Haslemere Primary School | 0.89 | 27 | 546.32 m (≈0.34 mi) |
| The Sherwood School | 0.86 | 21 | 731.46 m (≈0.45 mi) |
| Bond Primary School | 0.67 | 15 | 784.76 m (≈0.49 mi) |
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.