School admissions in Morpeth

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.

Morpeth in figures

For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 24 schools in Morpeth first 402 times for 400 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.01 across the Northumberland authority's 122 schools. 2 of the 24 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

24 schools. 2 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Felton Church of England Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.29	14
Abbeyfields First SchoolMorpeth	1.02	50
Amble Links Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	19
Cambo First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	7
Ellington Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	21
Grange View Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	15
Harbottle Church of England First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	1
Linton Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	1
Longhorsley St Helen's Church of England Aided First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	16
Morpeth All Saints Church of England First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	33
Morpeth First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	41
Morpeth Stobhillgate First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	20
NCEA Warkworth Church of England Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	16
NCEA William Leech CofE Primary SchoolMORPETH	1.00	8
Pegswood Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	14
Red Row Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	19
Rothbury First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	14
St Roberts Catholic First School, MorpethMorpeth	1.00	28
Stannington First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	27
Thropton Village First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	4
Tritlington Church of England First SchoolMorpeth	1.00	7
Whalton Church of England Aided Primary SchoolMorpeth	1.00	6
Broomhill Primary SchoolMorpeth	0.90	10
Swarland Primary SchoolMorpeth	0.78	9

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.