School admissions in Trowbridge

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. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Holt Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.05	22
Bellefield Primary and Nursery SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	30
Castle Mead SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	36
Hilperton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	13
Holbrook Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	22
Newtown Community Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	19
North Bradley CofE Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	26
Paxcroft Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	37
Southwick Church of England Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	16
St George's Church of England Primary School, SemingtonTrowbridge	1.00	10
St John's Catholic Primary School, TrowbridgeTrowbridge	1.00	34
Staverton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	22
Studley Green Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	18
The Grove Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	47
The Mead Community Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	50
Walwayne Court SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	24
West Ashton Church of England Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	15
Willowbrook Primary SchoolTrowbridge	1.00	6
Keevil CofE Primary SchoolTrowbridge	0.89	9

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.

Year 7 places, September 2026

3 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
St Augustine's Catholic CollegeTrowbridge	1.05	170
The Clarendon AcademyTrowbridge	0.98	117
The John of Gaunt SchoolTrowbridge	0.98	226