School admissions in Morden
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 5 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.
Morden in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 8 schools in Morden first 334 times for 359 places: 0.93 first choices per place. One of the 8 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Malmesbury Primary School, to 0.43 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
8 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malmesbury Primary School | 1.20 | 30 | 697 m (≈0.43 mi) |
| Hatfeild Primary School | 1.00 | 18 | 2855.43 m (≈1.77 mi) |
| Morden Primary School | 0.97 | 29 | 692.3 m (≈0.43 mi) |
| Abbey Primary School | 0.94 | 49 | 1079.84 m (≈0.67 mi) |
| Aragon Primary School | 0.93 | 86 | not published |
| Abbotsbury Primary School | 0.91 | 32 | not published |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | 0.86 | 56 | not published |
| Hillcross Primary School | 0.83 | 59 | 1471.33 m (≈0.91 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.