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School admissions in Seaham

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

9 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.

SchoolFirst preferences per placePlaces
Ribbon SchoolSeaham1.0069
Ropery Walk Primary SchoolSeaham1.0031
Seaham Trinity Primary SchoolSeaham1.0025
Seaview Primary SchoolSeaham1.0020
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, SeahamSeaham1.0023
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, MurtonSeaham1.007
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary SchoolSEAHAM1.0028
Westlea Primary SchoolSeaham1.0033
New Seaham AcademySeaham0.9522

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.