School admissions in Worksop

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 12 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.

Worksop in figures

For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 21 schools in Worksop first 642 times for 643 places: 1.00 first choices per place. 3 of the 21 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 6 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.42 miles (Hodthorpe Primary School) to 3.32 miles (Woodsetts Primary School).

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

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

School	First preferences per place	Places	Cutoff distance
Hodthorpe Primary SchoolWorksop	1.07	15	0.424 miles 2026
Woodsetts Primary SchoolWorksop	1.04	28	3.325 miles 2026
Whipman Woods Flying High AcademyWorksop	1.03	32	0.78 miles 2026
Gateford Park Primary SchoolWorksop	1.00	27	not published
Haggonfields Primary and Nursery SchoolWorksop	1.00	7	not published
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolWorksop	1.00	24	not published
Kingston Park AcademyWorksop	1.00	31	1.3 miles 2026
Langold Dyscarr Community SchoolWorksop	1.00	34	not published
Norbridge AcademyWorksop	1.00	39	not published
Prospect Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolWorksop	1.00	38	not published
Ramsden Primary SchoolWorksop	1.00	18	0.62 miles 2025
Redlands Primary and Nursery SchoolWorksop	1.00	25	not published
Sir Edmund Hillary AcademyWorksop	1.00	27	not published
Sparken Hill AcademyWorksop	1.00	57	not published
St John's CofE AcademyWorksop	1.00	63	1.15 miles 2026
St Luke's CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolWorksop	1.00	33	0.64 miles 2026
The Primary School of St Mary and St MartinWorksop	1.00	14	1.31 miles 2025
The St Augustine's AcademyWorksop	1.00	33	not published
Worksop Priory Church of England Primary AcademyWorksop	1.00	30	0.42 miles 2025
Whitwell Primary SchoolWorksop	0.95	20	not published
Creswell CofE Controlled Infant and NurseryWorksop	0.94	48	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.