School admissions in St Leonards-on-Sea
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 5 of these schools also have 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.
St Leonards-on-Sea in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 9 schools in St Leonards-on-Sea first 453 times for 455 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the East Sussex authority's 141 schools. One of the 9 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
9 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Ark Little Ridge Primary Academy | 1.58 | 60 |
| St Leonards Church of England Primary Academy | 1.00 | 60 |
| St Paul's Church of England Academy | 0.99 | 90 |
| Robsack Wood Primary School | 0.94 | 33 |
| Mulberry West St Leonards Primary | 0.88 | 60 |
| St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School | 0.88 | 24 |
| Mulberry Silverdale Primary | 0.85 | 86 |
| Churchwood Primary School | 0.80 | 20 |
| Hollington Primary School | 0.68 | 22 |
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.