School admissions in Skelmersdale

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

19 schools. 6 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Moorside Community Primary Academy SchoolSkelmersdale	1.37	27
St James' Catholic Primary School, SkelmersdaleSkelmersdale	1.31	29
Crawford Village Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.30	10
Delph Side Community Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.14	29
St Richard's Catholic Primary School, SkelmersdaleSkelmersdale	1.07	30
Trinity Church of England/Methodist SchoolSkelmersdale	1.03	29
Cobbs Brow SchoolSkelmersdale	1.00	40
Hillside Community Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.00	14
Little Digmoor Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.00	13
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.00	19
St Thomas the Martyr Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.00	23
Upholland Roby Mill CofE Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	1.00	5
Crow Orchard Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	0.94	18
Woodland Community Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	0.89	27
St John's Catholic Primary School, SkelmersdaleSkelmersdale	0.87	15
Brookfield Park Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	0.85	20
Bishop Martin Church of England Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	0.83	18
Holland Moor Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	0.83	53
St Edmund's Catholic Primary SchoolSkelmersdale	0.67	6

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.