School admissions in Oxted
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 4 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.
Oxted in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 4 schools in Oxted first 148 times for 152 places: 0.97 first choices per place, against 0.99 across the Surrey authority's 247 schools. One of the 4 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: St Mary's CofE Primary School, to 1.78 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
4 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | 1.20 | 60 | 2.864 km (≈1.78 mi) |
| Hurst Green Infant School & Nursery | 0.93 | 30 | 0.839 km (≈0.52 mi) |
| St Peter's CofE Infant School | 0.90 | 29 | 3.453 km (≈2.15 mi) |
| Limpsfield CofE Infant School | 0.67 | 33 | 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.