School admissions in Newcastle
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 12 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.
Newcastle in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 16 schools in Newcastle first 570 times for 566 places: 1.01 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Staffordshire authority's 296 schools. One of the 16 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Hempstalls Primary School, to 0.72 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
16 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hempstalls Primary School | 1.23 | 60 | 0.722 miles |
| Churchfields Primary School | 1.00 | 40 | 0.781 miles |
| Langdale Primary School | 1.00 | 45 | not published |
| Our Lady and St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School | 1.00 | 26 | not published |
| St Chad's CofE (C) Primary School | 1.00 | 22 | 1.73 miles |
| St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy | 1.00 | 46 | not published |
| St John's CofE Primary Academy | 1.00 | 12 | 2.963 miles |
| St Luke's CofE (C) Primary School | 1.00 | 23 | 1.73 miles |
| St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School | 1.00 | 49 | not published |
| Bursley Academy | 0.98 | 57 | 1.036 miles |
| Ellison Primary Academy | 0.98 | 43 | not published |
| Crackley Bank Primary School | 0.95 | 22 | not published |
| Silverdale Primary Academy | 0.95 | 20 | not published |
| May Bank Infants' School | 0.95 | 58 | 1.109 miles |
| Hassell Primary School | 0.93 | 15 | 2.1 miles |
| Co-op Academy Friarswood | 0.93 | 28 | 0.49 miles |
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.