School admissions in Workington
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. None of these schools has 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.
Workington in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 13 schools in Workington first 296 times for 296 places: 1.00 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Cumberland authority's 130 schools. 0 of the 13 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
13 schools. 0 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Ashfield Infant & Nursery School | 1.00 | 52 |
| Beckstone Primary School | 1.00 | 39 |
| Dean CofE School | 1.00 | 10 |
| Derwent Vale Primary and Nursery School | 1.00 | 7 |
| Distington Community School | 1.00 | 6 |
| Northside Primary School | 1.00 | 4 |
| Seaton Academy | 1.00 | 35 |
| St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Workington | 1.00 | 25 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | 1.00 | 23 |
| St Michael's Nursery and Infant School | 1.00 | 20 |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | 1.00 | 18 |
| Victoria Infant and Nursery School | 1.00 | 44 |
| Westfield Nursery and Primary School | 1.00 | 13 |
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.