School admissions in Ripon

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

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

School	First preferences per place	Places
Kirkby Malzeard Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.07	15
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.05	19
Grewelthorpe Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	6
Masham CofE Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	4
North Stainley Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	2
Outwood Primary Academy GreystoneRipon	1.00	13
Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	26
Thornton Watlass Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	1
Moorside Primary School & NurseryRipon	0.96	28
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyRipon	0.94	17
Sharow Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	0.85	13
St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West TanfieldRipon	0.78	9
Fountains Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	0.71	7

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.