School admissions in Ross-on-Wye
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. None of these schools has 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.
Ross-on-Wye in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 11 schools in Ross-on-Wye first 174 times for 179 places: 0.97 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Herefordshire, County of authority's 78 schools. 0 of the 11 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
11 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Ashfield Park Primary School | 1.00 | 20 |
| Brampton Abbotts CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 9 |
| Bridstow CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 8 |
| Lea CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 15 |
| Llangrove CE Academy | 1.00 | 7 |
| St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery | 1.00 | 29 |
| Weston-under-Penyard CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 5 |
| Whitchurch CofE Primary School | 1.00 | 14 |
| Walford Nursery & Primary School | 0.96 | 27 |
| Goodrich CofE Primary School | 0.94 | 18 |
| Gorsley Goffs Primary School | 0.89 | 27 |
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.