School admissions in Thirsk

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

13 schools. 3 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Pickhill Church of England Primary SchoolThirsk	1.56	9
Topcliffe CofE AcademyThirsk	1.06	16
Keeble Gateway AcademyThirsk	1.04	28
Alanbrooke AcademyThirsk	1.00	6
All Saints Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyThirsk	1.00	6
Carlton Miniott Primary AcademyThirsk	1.00	26
Dishforth Airfield Community Primary SchoolThirsk	1.00	14
Knayton Church of England AcademyThirsk	1.00	7
Sessay Church of England Primary SchoolThirsk	1.00	10
South Kilvington Church of England AcademyThirsk	1.00	11
Sowerby Primary AcademyThirsk	1.00	28
Thirsk Community Primary SchoolThirsk	1.00	9
Dishforth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolThirsk	0.93	15

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.