School admissions in Warminster

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
St John's CofE SchoolWarminster	1.47	15
Horningsham Primary SchoolWARMINSTER	1.17	12
The Minster CofE Primary SchoolWarminster	1.03	30
Crockerton CofE Primary SchoolWarminster	1.00	9
Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolWarminster	1.00	11
The Avenue Primary School and Children's CentreWarminster	1.00	29
Whitesheet Church of England Primary AcademyWarminster	1.00	6
Wylye Valley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolWarminster	1.00	14
Mere SchoolWarminster	0.95	43
New Close Primary SchoolWarminster	0.95	19
Princecroft Primary SchoolWarminster	0.92	26
St George's Catholic Primary School, WarminsterWarminster	0.88	8
Heytesbury Church of England Primary SchoolWarminster	0.67	3

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.