School admissions in Morecambe

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

15 schools. 5 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Morecambe and Heysham Grosvenor Park Primary SchoolMorecambe	1.55	44
Mossgate Primary SchoolMorecambe	1.54	28
Heysham St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolMorecambe	1.24	29
Great Wood Primary SchoolMorecambe	1.20	60
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolMorecambe	1.10	30
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, MorecambeMorecambe	1.00	16
Morecambe Bay Community Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.96	26
Lancaster Road Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.93	46
Poulton-le-Sands Church of England Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.89	18
Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.89	44
Morecambe and Heysham Torrisholme Community Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.88	60
Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.80	45
West End Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.79	29
Overton St Helen's Church of England Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.79	19
Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary SchoolMorecambe	0.75	56

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.