School admissions in Tadcaster
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 1 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.
Tadcaster in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 6 schools in Tadcaster first 111 times for 111 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the North Yorkshire authority's 280 schools. One of the 6 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
6 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Kirk Fenton Church of England Primary School | 1.03 | 29 |
| Barkston Ash Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | 1.00 | 17 |
| Saxton Church of England Primary School | 1.00 | 6 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | 1.00 | 13 |
| Tadcaster Primary Academy | 1.00 | 14 |
| Riverside School, Tadcaster | 0.97 | 32 |
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.