School admissions in Tring
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.
Tring in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 6 schools in Tring first 174 times for 169 places: 1.03 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Hertfordshire authority's 364 schools. 2 of the 6 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Grove Road Primary School, to 1.48 miles.
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. 2 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goldfield Infants' and Nursery School | 1.26 | 58 | 474.27 m (≈0.29 mi) |
| Long Marston VA Church of England Primary and Nursery School | 1.14 | 14 | not published |
| Grove Road Primary School | 0.92 | 59 | 2378.44 m (≈1.48 mi) |
| Aldbury Church of England Primary and Nursery School | 0.89 | 9 | 3631.79 m (≈2.26 mi) |
| St Bartholomew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Wigginton | 0.85 | 13 | not published |
| Dundale Primary School and Nursery | 0.75 | 16 | not published |
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.