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School admissions in Rainham

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

8 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlacesCutoff distance
Rainham Village Primary SchoolRainham1.08590.939 km (≈0.58 mi) 2026
La Salette Catholic Primary SchoolRainham1.0730not published
Park Primary AcademyRainham1.07301.556 km (≈0.97 mi) 2026
Brady Primary SchoolRainham0.96561.528 km (≈0.95 mi) 2025
Newtons Primary SchoolRainham0.9557not published
Whybridge Infant SchoolRainham0.94721.328 km (≈0.83 mi) 2025
Miers Court Primary SchoolRainham0.8955not published
Parsonage Farm Primary SchoolRainham0.8865not 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.