School admissions in North Yorkshire

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

281 schools. 48 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Dacre Braithwaite Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.70	10
Cambrai Primary SchoolCatterick Garrison	1.63	30
Pickhill Church of England Primary SchoolThirsk	1.56	9
Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary SchoolSelby	1.47	30
Giggleswick Primary SchoolSettle	1.46	13
Eppleby Forcett Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	1.43	7
Fairburn Community Primary SchoolKnottingley	1.42	12
Marton-Cum-Grafton Church of England Primary SchoolYork	1.40	15
St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyMalton	1.40	30
Cayton Community Primary SchoolScarborough	1.38	29
Hambleton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSelby	1.37	30
Askwith Primary SchoolOtley	1.33	15
Crayke Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYORK	1.33	15
Bishop Monkton Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.29	14
Cracoe and Rylstone Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary SchoolSkipton	1.29	7
Stakesby Primary AcademyWhitby	1.24	29
Bolton-On-Swale St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolRichmond	1.21	14
Carlton and Faceby Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolMiddlesbrough	1.20	5
Meadowside AcademyKnaresborough	1.20	30
Scotton Lingerfield Primary SchoolKnaresborough	1.20	15
Sinnington Community Primary SchoolYork	1.20	10
Skipton, Water Street Community Primary SchoolSkipton	1.20	30
Markington Church of England Primary & Nursery SchoolHarrogate	1.17	6
The Boyle and Petyt Primary SchoolSkipton	1.17	12
Coppice Valley Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.13	30
Green Hammerton Church of England Primary SchoolYork	1.13	15
Cowling Community Primary SchoolKeighley	1.12	8
East Cowton Church of England Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.12	8
Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolBedale	1.11	19
Burton Leonard Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.10	10
Wistow Parochial Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSelby	1.10	20
Summerbridge Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.09	11
Staveley Community Primary SchoolKnaresborough	1.08	12
Leeming RAF Community Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.07	14
Rossett Acre Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.07	59
Boroughbridge Primary SchoolYork	1.07	30
Kirkby Malzeard Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.07	15
Lindhead SchoolScarborough	1.07	30
Sutton on the Forest Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYork	1.07	15
Topcliffe CofE AcademyThirsk	1.06	16
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.05	19
Alverton Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.05	20
Oatlands Infant SchoolHarrogate	1.04	89
Keeble Gateway AcademyThirsk	1.04	28
Hunmanby Primary SchoolFiley	1.03	29
Kirk Fenton Church of England Primary SchoolTadcaster	1.03	29
Newby and Scalby AcademyScarborough	1.03	58
Ingleton Primary SchoolCarnforth	1.03	30
Admiral Long Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	6
Ainderby Steeple Church of England Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	6
Alanbrooke AcademyThirsk	1.00	6
All Saints Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyThirsk	1.00	6
All Saints Church of England SchoolHarrogate	1.00	11
Amotherby Community Primary SchoolMalton	1.00	30
Applegarth Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	30
Appleton Roebuck Primary SchoolYork	1.00	7
Appleton Wiske Community Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	9
Askrigg Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolLeyburn	1.00	1
Austwick Church of England VA Primary SchoolLancaster	1.00	3
Barkston Ash Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyTadcaster	1.00	17
Barlby Bridge Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	18
Barlow Church of England Primary SchoolSelby	1.00	8
Barrowcliff SchoolScarborough	1.00	29
Barton Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	5
Barwic Parade Community Primary School, SelbySelby	1.00	15
Beckwithshaw Community Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	6
Bradleys Both Community Primary SchoolKeighley	1.00	19
Brompton and Sawdon Community Primary SchoolScarborough	1.00	11
Broomfield SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	10
Burnsall Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolSkipton	1.00	3
Burton Salmon Community Primary SchoolLeeds	1.00	6
Camblesforth Community Primary AcademySelby	1.00	11
Carlton Miniott Primary AcademyThirsk	1.00	26
Carlton Primary SchoolGoole	1.00	26
Castleton Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	7
Chapel Haddlesey Church of England Primary SchoolSelby	1.00	10
Cliffe Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSelby	1.00	14
Cononley Primary SchoolKeighley	1.00	17
Croft Church of England Primary SchoolDarlington	1.00	13
Danby Church of England Voluntary Aided SchoolWhitby	1.00	9
Darley Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	5
Dishforth Airfield Community Primary SchoolThirsk	1.00	14
Easingwold Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	41
Escrick Church of England Primary SchoolYork	1.00	24
Follifoot Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	3
Forest of Galtres Anglican/Methodist Primary SchoolYork	1.00	13
Foston Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYork	1.00	3
Friarage Community AcademyScarborough	1.00	22
Fylingdales Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	6
Gillamoor Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYork	1.00	7
Gladstone Road Primary SchoolScarborough	1.00	65
Glaisdale Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	3
Glusburn Community Primary SchoolKeighley	1.00	53
Goathland Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	1
Grassington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSkipton	1.00	9
Great Smeaton Academy Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	1
Grewelthorpe Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	6
Gunnerside Methodist Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	3
Hackness Church of England Primary SchoolScarborough	1.00	5
Hampsthwaite Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	20
Harrogate, Grove Road Community Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	17
Hawes Primary SchoolHawes	1.00	5
Helmsley Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	20
Hemingbrough Community Primary SchoolSelby	1.00	13
Hertford Vale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, StaxtonScarborough	1.00	4
Hookstone Chase Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	32
Hutton Rudby Primary SchoolYarm	1.00	22
Ingleby Greenhow Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolMIDDLESBROUGH	1.00	4
Kellington Primary SchoolGoole	1.00	15
Kettlewell Primary SchoolSkipton	1.00	3
Kirkby and Great Broughton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolMiddlesbrough	1.00	15
Kirkbymoorside Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	14
Knaresborough St John's Church of England Primary SchoolKnaresborough	1.00	33
Knayton Church of England AcademyThirsk	1.00	7
Langton Primary SchoolMalton	1.00	11
Lealholm Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	5
Leavening Community Primary SchoolMalton	1.00	6
Leyburn Primary SchoolLeyburn	1.00	27
Linton-on-Ouse Primary SchoolYork	1.00	10
Lothersdale Primary SchoolKeighley	1.00	18
Luttons Community Primary AcademyMalton	1.00	1
Lythe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	15
Marwood Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School, Great AytonMiddlesbrough	1.00	9
Masham CofE Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	4
Melsonby Methodist Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	3
Middleham Church of England Aided SchoolLeyburn	1.00	2
Mill Hill Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	19
Monk Fryston Church of England Primary SchoolLeeds	1.00	30
Nawton Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	9
North Duffield Community Primary SchoolSelby	1.00	14
North Stainley Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	2
North and South Cowton Community Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	2
Nun Monkton Primary Foundation SchoolYork	1.00	4
Oakridge Community Primary SchoolSaltburn-by-the-Sea	1.00	6
Osmotherley Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	8
Outwood Primary Academy AlneYork	1.00	21
Outwood Primary Academy GreystoneRipon	1.00	13
Ravensworth Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	10
Reeth Community Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	5
Riccall Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	15
Richard Taylor Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	40
Richmond Methodist Primary SchoolRichmond	1.00	36
Rillington Primary SchoolMalton	1.00	14
Ripley Endowed Church of England SchoolHARROGATE	1.00	4
Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	26
Romanby Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	28
Roseberry AcademyMiddlesbrough	1.00	16
Rosedale Abbey Community Primary SchoolPickering	1.00	2
Ruswarp Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	3
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyNorthallerton	1.00	12
Sand Hutton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYork	1.00	8
Saxton Church of England Primary SchoolTadcaster	1.00	6
Seamer and Irton Community Primary SchoolScarborough	1.00	59
Sessay Church of England Primary SchoolThirsk	1.00	10
Sherburn Church of England Primary AcademyMalton	1.00	2
Sherburn Hungate Primary SchoolLeeds	1.00	41
Sherburn in Elmet, Athelstan Community Primary SchoolLeeds	1.00	54
Sheriff Hutton Primary SchoolYork	1.00	12
Sleights Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	18
Slingsby Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	8
Snainton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolScarborough	1.00	3
South Kilvington Church of England AcademyThirsk	1.00	11
South Milford Primary SchoolLeeds	1.00	28
South Otterington Church of England Primary SchoolNorthallerton	1.00	10
Sowerby Primary AcademyThirsk	1.00	28
Spennithorne Church of England Primary SchoolLeyburn	1.00	8
St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School, Pateley BridgeHarrogate	1.00	5
St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyScarborough	1.00	11
St Hedda's Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyWhitby	1.00	5
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyPickering	1.00	6
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Harrogate, A Voluntary AcademyHarrogate	1.00	20
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyTadcaster	1.00	13
St Peter's Brafferton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolYork	1.00	18
St Peter's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyScarborough	1.00	26
St Robert's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyHarrogate	1.00	25
St Stephen's Catholic Primary School and Nursery, A Voluntary AcademySkipton	1.00	15
Staithes, Seton Community Primary SchoolSaltburn-by-the-Sea	1.00	7
Starbeck Primary AcademyHarrogate	1.00	25
Stokesley Primary AcademyMiddlesbrough	1.00	19
Sutton CofE Primary and Nursery SchoolKeighley	1.00	12
Sutton-in-Craven Community Primary SchoolKeighley	1.00	19
Tadcaster Primary AcademyTadcaster	1.00	14
Terrington Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolYork	1.00	4
Thirsk Community Primary SchoolThirsk	1.00	9
Thomas Hinderwell Primary AcademyScarborough	1.00	21
Thornton Watlass Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	1.00	1
Threshfield Primary SchoolSkipton	1.00	12
Trinity Academy RichmondRichmond	1.00	5
Warthill Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYork	1.00	3
Welburn Community Primary SchoolYork	1.00	6
West Cliff Primary SchoolWhitby	1.00	15
West Heslerton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolMalton	1.00	5
Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary SchoolGoole	1.00	28
Willow Tree Community Primary SchoolHarrogate	1.00	55
Wykeham Church of England Primary SchoolScarborough	1.00	4
Norton Community Primary SchoolMalton	0.98	55
Filey Church of England Nursery and Infants AcademyFiley	0.98	42
Selby Abbey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSelby	0.98	42
Bedale Church of England Primary SchoolBedale	0.97	32
Riverside School, TadcasterTadcaster	0.97	32
Saltergate Infant SchoolHarrogate	0.97	32
Oakbridge Church of England Primary SchoolNorthallerton	0.97	30
Harrogate, Bilton Grange Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.97	29
Moorside Primary School & NurseryRipon	0.96	28
Scarborough, Northstead Community Primary SchoolScarborough	0.96	55
Selby Community Primary SchoolSelby	0.96	27
St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.96	27
Colburn Community Primary SchoolCatterick Garrison	0.96	26
Killinghall Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.96	26
Pannal Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.96	51
Pickering Community Infant SchoolPickering	0.96	50
East Ayton Community Primary SchoolScarborough	0.96	24
Wheatcroft Community Primary SchoolScarborough	0.96	24
Aspin Park AcademyKnaresborough	0.95	60
Bentham Community Primary SchoolLANCASTER	0.95	20
Kildwick Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolKeighley	0.95	20
Thornton Dale CofE Primary SchoolPickering	0.95	20
Barlby Community Primary SchoolSelby	0.95	38
St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyRichmond	0.95	19
Tockwith Church of England Primary AcademyYork	0.95	38
Western Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.95	56
Hunton and Arrathorne Community Primary SchoolBedale	0.94	18
Scarborough, Overdale Community Primary SchoolScarborough	0.94	35
Brompton Community Primary SchoolNorthallerton	0.94	17
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyRipon	0.94	17
Wavell Community Primary SchoolCatterick Garrison	0.94	17
Carnagill Community Primary SchoolCatterick Garrison	0.93	15
Dishforth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolThirsk	0.93	15
Greatwood Community Primary SchoolSkipton	0.93	30
Brayton Church of England Primary SchoolSelby	0.93	58
Huby Church of England Primary SchoolYork	0.93	14
St Mary's Primary School Knaresborough, A Voluntary Catholic AcademyKnaresborough	0.93	27
Settle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolSettle	0.92	26
Cawood Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolSelby/York	0.92	12
Crakehall Church of England Primary SchoolBedale	0.92	12
East Whitby Primary AcademyWhitby	0.92	24
New Park Primary AcademyHarrogate	0.92	12
North Rigton Church of England Primary SchoolLeeds	0.92	12
Bainbridge Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolLeyburn	0.91	11
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolSkipton	0.91	11
Settrington All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolMalton	0.91	11
Staynor Hall Primary AcademySelby	0.90	41
Spofforth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.90	10
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyYork	0.90	10
Braeburn Primary and Nursery AcademyScarborough	0.90	29
Hawsker Cum Stainsacre Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolWhitby	0.89	9
Kirkby in Malhamdale United Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolSkipton	0.89	9
Catterick Garrison, Le Cateau Community Primary SchoolCatterick Garrison	0.88	52
St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, ScarboroughScarborough	0.88	34
Airy Hill Primary SchoolWhitby	0.88	25
Brompton-on-Swale Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	0.88	25
Leeming St. John's Church of England Primary SchoolNorthallerton	0.88	8
Long Preston Endowed Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolSkipton	0.88	8
Sicklinghall Community Primary SchoolWetherby	0.88	8
Skipton Parish Church of England Primary SchoolSkipton	0.88	24
Michael Syddall Church of England Aided Primary SchoolRichmond	0.87	23
Brotherton and Byram Community Primary AcademyKnottingley	0.86	22
Carleton Endowed CofE Primary SchoolSkipton	0.86	7
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademySelby	0.85	20
Sharow Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	0.85	13
Glasshouses Community Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.83	6
Kirk Smeaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPontefract	0.82	11
Roecliffe CofE Primary SchoolYork	0.82	11
Thornton in Craven Community Primary SchoolThornton-in-Craven	0.82	11
Hipswell Church of England Primary SchoolCatterick Garrison	0.81	16
Thorpe Willoughby Community Primary SchoolSelby	0.81	42
Husthwaite Church of England Primary SchoolYork	0.78	9
Kirk Hammerton Church of England Primary SchoolYork	0.78	9
St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West TanfieldRipon	0.78	9
Kirby Hill Church of England (VC) Primary SchoolYork	0.77	22
Egton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolWhitby	0.75	4
Goldsborough Church of England Primary SchoolKnaresborough	0.75	16
Hellifield Community Primary SchoolSkipton	0.75	4
Long Marston Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolYork	0.75	4
Stillington Primary SchoolYork	0.75	4
Birstwith Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.73	11
Fountains Church of England Primary SchoolRipon	0.71	7
Snape Community Primary SchoolBedale	0.71	7
Middleton Tyas Church of England Primary SchoolRichmond	0.70	10
Malton Primary AcademyMalton	0.68	22
Kettlesing Felliscliffe Community Primary SchoolHarrogate	0.00	1

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

40 schools. 13 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
Ripon Grammar SchoolRipon	1.50	110
Skipton Girls' High SchoolSkipton	1.50	120
St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academyScarborough	1.47	115
Ermysted's Grammar SchoolSkipton	1.43	127
St Francis Xavier School - a Joint Catholic and Church of England Voluntary AcademyRichmond	1.42	113
St Aidan's Church of England High SchoolHarrogate	1.37	248
Harrogate Grammar SchoolHarrogate	1.30	281
South Craven SchoolKeighley	1.13	266
George Pindar SchoolScarborough	1.10	156
Malton SchoolMalton	1.06	155
Stokesley SchoolStokesley	1.05	202
Brayton AcademySelby	1.03	231
Tadcaster Grammar SchoolTadcaster	1.01	254
Upper Wharfedale SchoolSkipton	0.98	66
Ryedale SchoolYork	0.97	135
Sherburn High SchoolLeeds	0.97	179
The Skipton AcademySkipton	0.96	156
Outwood Academy EasingwoldYork	0.95	129
Whitby SchoolWhitby	0.95	176
Bedale High SchoolBedale	0.93	89
Filey AcademyFiley	0.93	112
Thirsk School & Sixth Form CollegeThirsk	0.93	153
Wensleydale SchoolLeyburn	0.93	83
Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and ScienceSelby	0.92	228
Lady Lumley's AcademyPickering	0.92	110
Scalby AcademyScarborough	0.92	229
Boroughbridge High SchoolYork	0.90	48
Northallerton School & Sixth Form CollegeNorthallerton	0.89	190
King James's SchoolKnaresborough	0.89	253
Risedale SchoolCatterick Garrison	0.84	70
Richmond School & Sixth Form CollegeRichmond	0.83	228
Norton SchoolMalton	0.81	106
Harrogate High SchoolHarrogate	0.78	87
Settle CollegeSettle	0.78	80
Barlby High SchoolSelby	0.77	95
Outwood Academy RiponRipon	0.73	109
Nidderdale High SchoolHarrogate	0.73	70
St John Fisher Catholic AcademyHarrogate	0.71	182
Graham SchoolScarborough	0.71	181
Rossett SchoolHarrogate	0.52	148