School admissions in Salisbury

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

46 schools. 11 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
King's Gate Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.50	30
Newton Tony Church of England Voluntary Controlled SchoolSalisbury	1.36	14
Stratford-sub-Castle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.35	20
Pitton Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.18	17
Bemerton St John Church of England PrimarySalisbury	1.17	30
St Osmund's Catholic Primary School, SalisburySalisbury	1.10	30
Amesbury Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.07	29
Bulford St Leonard's C of E (VA) Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.07	29
Downton CofE VA Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.07	30
Salisbury, Manor Fields Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.07	30
St. Peter's CE Primary AcademySalisbury	1.03	59
Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	11
Broad Chalke CofE Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	14
Coombe Bissett Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	14
Dinton CofE Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	4
Great Wishford CofE (VA) Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	8
Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Mary's and St John'sSalisbury	1.00	6
Larkhill Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	34
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	10
Netheravon All Saints CofE Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	21
Old Sarum Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	29
Pembroke Park Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	14
Sixpenny Handley First School and NurserySalisbury	1.00	12
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	44
St Nicholas Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	20
West Tytherley Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	9
Whiteparish All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	7
Winterslow Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	25
Woodlands Primary SchoolSalisbury	1.00	25
Wyndham Park Infants' SchoolSalisbury	1.00	33
Durrington All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infants' SchoolSalisbury	0.98	41
Greentrees Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.96	49
Shrewton CofE Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.94	17
Harnham Infants' SchoolSalisbury	0.94	66
Winterbourne Earls Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.93	29
Gomeldon Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.92	13
Sarum St Paul's CofE (VA) Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.92	26
St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, LaverstockSalisbury	0.92	26
St Thomas à Becket Church of England Aided Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.83	6
Kiwi Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.81	27
St Martin's CofE Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.80	5
Woodford Valley Church of England Aided SchoolSalisbury	0.80	20
Wilton CofE Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.75	16
Chilmark and Fonthill Bishop Church of England Aided Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.67	9
St John's Church of England Primary School, TisburySalisbury	0.62	8
Longford Church of England Primary SchoolSalisbury	0.50	2

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.

Year 7 places, September 2026

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

School	First preferences per place	Places
South Wilts Grammar SchoolSalisbury	1.46	158
Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar SchoolSalisbury	1.36	157
Avon Valley AcademySalisbury	0.93	107
Sarum AcademySalisbury	0.91	116
The Trafalgar School at DowntonSalisbury	0.90	144
Wyvern St Edmund's AcademySalisbury	0.89	219
St Joseph's Catholic SchoolSalisbury	0.84	102