School admissions in Richmond (North Yorkshire)

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 3 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.

Richmond (North Yorkshire) in figures

For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 13 schools in Richmond (North Yorkshire) first 161 times for 165 places: 0.98 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the North Yorkshire authority's 280 schools. 2 of the 13 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

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

School	First preferences per place	Places
Eppleby Forcett Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	1.43	7
Bolton-On-Swale St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolRichmond	1.21	14
Barton Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	5
Gunnerside Methodist Junior SchoolRichmond	1.00	3
Melsonby Methodist Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	3
Ravensworth Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	10
Reeth Community Infant SchoolRichmond	1.00	5
Richmond Methodist Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	36
Trinity Academy RichmondRichmond	1.00	5
St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyRichmond	0.95	19
Brompton-on-Swale Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	0.88	25
Michael Syddall Church of England Aided Primary SchoolRichmond	0.87	23
Middleton Tyas Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	0.70	10

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.