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. 8 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.
Morecambe in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 15 schools in Morecambe first 560 times for 550 places: 1.02 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Lancashire authority's 472 schools. 5 of the 15 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 7 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.40 miles (Heysham St Peter's Church of England Primary School) to 2.10 miles (Morecambe and Heysham Torrisholme Community 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
15 schools. 5 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morecambe and Heysham Grosvenor Park Primary School | 1.55 | 44 | 1 miles |
| Mossgate Primary School | 1.54 | 28 | 0.4 miles |
| Heysham St Peter's Church of England Primary School | 1.24 | 29 | 0.4 miles |
| Great Wood Primary School | 1.20 | 60 | 0.8 miles |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | 1.10 | 30 | 1.8 miles |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Morecambe | 1.00 | 16 | not published |
| Morecambe Bay Community Primary School | 0.96 | 26 | not published |
| Lancaster Road Primary School | 0.93 | 46 | not published |
| Poulton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School | 0.89 | 18 | not published |
| Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary School | 0.89 | 44 | not published |
| Morecambe and Heysham Torrisholme Community Primary School | 0.88 | 60 | 2.1 miles |
| Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School | 0.80 | 45 | 1.9 miles |
| West End Primary School | 0.79 | 29 | not published |
| Overton St Helen's Church of England Primary School | 0.79 | 19 | not published |
| Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary School | 0.75 | 56 | not published |
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.