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How far Surrey schools admitted from

How far away the last child offered a place lived, for 151 Surrey schools, from the council's own figures. Tightest first.

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151schools with a published figure
1.42 mithe middle school's distance
57filled within a mile

Primary and secondary schools, from the 2026/27 round.

Applying for September 2027? Secondary applications close on 31 October 2026, with offers on 1 March 2027; primary applications close on 15 January 2027, with offers on 16 April 2027.

The tightest is Farncombe Church of England Infant School at 0.2 miles in 2026/27; the most far-reaching, St Peter's Catholic School, admitted from 29.29 miles.

Primary schools

School Ofsted Admitted from Round How full
Farncombe Church of England Infant School Godalming Good 0.2 mi 2026/27 88%
St Martin's Church of England Junior School Epsom Ungraded inspection, May 2025: improved significantly 0.25 mi 2026/27 99%
Pyrcroft Grange Primary School Chertsey Outstanding 0.3 mi 2026/27 100%
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Chertsey Good 0.31 mi 2026/27 100%
St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School Guildford No current grade 0.32 mi 2026/27 90%
Trinity Oaks Church of England Primary School Horley Report card 0.34 mi 2026/27 96%
Stepgates Community School CHERTSEY Good 0.35 mi 2026/27 132%
Manorfield Primary and Nursery School Horley Good 0.38 mi 2026/27 78%
Merstham Primary School Redhill Good 0.39 mi 2026/27 79%
Earlswood Infant and Nursery School Redhill Good 0.41 mi 2026/27 85%
St Mary's Church of England Primary School Godalming Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 0.42 mi 2026/27 94%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Dorking Good 0.43 mi 2026/27 not published
Warlingham Village Primary School Warlingham No current grade 0.43 mi 2026/27 95%
Manorcroft Primary School Egham Good 0.46 mi 2026/27 98%
Clarendon Primary School Ashford Good 0.47 mi 2026/27 105%
William Cobbett Primary School Farnham Good 0.49 mi 2026/27 not published
Grovelands Primary School Walton on Thames Good 0.5 mi 2026/27 115%
Kingfield Primary School Woking Good 0.5 mi 2026/27 120%
Long Ditton Infant and Nursery School Surbiton No current grade 0.5 mi 2026/27 90%
St John's Primary School Redhill Good 0.5 mi 2026/27 98%
Salfords Primary School and Nursery Redhill Good 0.51 mi 2026/27 85%
Nutfield Church CofE Primary School Redhill Ungraded inspection, May 2025: standards maintained 0.53 mi 2026/27 96%
St Hugh of Lincoln Catholic Primary School Woking Outstanding 0.53 mi 2026/27 103%
St Mary's CofE Primary School Oxted Good 0.53 mi 2026/27 96%
Audley Primary School Caterham Good 0.55 mi 2026/27 97%
Godalming Junior School Godalming Good 0.55 mi 2026/27 100%
Town Farm Primary School & Nursery Staines No current grade 0.57 mi 2026/27 102%
Meath Green Junior School Horley Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 0.6 mi 2026/27 97%
Wray Common Primary School Reigate Report card 0.61 mi 2026/27 85%
Hillcroft Primary School & Nursery Caterham Outstanding 0.63 mi 2026/27 110%
St Alban's Catholic Primary School East Molesey Report card 0.63 mi 2026/27 100%
South Farnham School Farnham Outstanding 0.65 mi 2026/27 117%
Mytchett Primary & Nursery Academy Camberley Good 0.66 mi 2026/27 100%
Cleves School Weybridge Outstanding 0.67 mi 2026/27 100%
Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School Staines Report card 0.7 mi 2026/27 112%
Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School Ash Ungraded inspection, July 2025: improved significantly 0.76 mi 2026/27 98%
Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery Epsom Outstanding 0.76 mi 2026/27 106%
Ongar Place Primary School Addlestone Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained 0.83 mi 2026/27 97%
Cardinal Newman Catholic Primary School Hersham Good 0.85 mi 2026/27 98%
Holly Lodge Primary Academy Ash Vale Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 0.85 mi 2026/27 96%
Horley Infant School Horley No current grade 0.85 mi 2026/27 99%
The Marist Catholic Primary School West Byfleet Report card 0.86 mi 2026/27 100%
Pyrford Church of England Primary School Woking Outstanding 0.87 mi 2026/27 98%
Long Ditton St Mary's CofE (Aided) Junior School Surbiton Outstanding 0.91 mi 2026/27 87%
St Cuthbert Mayne Catholic Primary School Cranleigh Good 0.91 mi 2026/27 99%
Stamford Green Primary School and Nursery Epsom No current grade 0.92 mi 2026/27 99%
Meadow Primary School Epsom Good 0.93 mi 2026/27 85%
Shawfield Primary School Ash Good 0.94 mi 2026/27 93%
Whyteleafe Primary School Whyteleafe Good 0.96 mi 2026/27 106%
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Camberley Good 1.01 mi 2026/27 104%
Badshot Lea Village Infant School Farnham No current grade 1.08 mi 2026/27 99%
St Paul's CofE Primary School Dorking Good 1.1 mi 2026/27 95%
Tadworth Primary School Tadworth Good 1.12 mi 2026/27 not published
West Ashtead Primary Academy Ashtead Report card 1.14 mi 2026/27 81%
Cuddington Community Primary School Worcester Park Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.22 mi 2026/27 87%
Busbridge CofE Aided Junior School Godalming Good 1.25 mi 2026/27 100%
Maybury Primary School Woking Good 1.31 mi 2026/27 95%
Moss Lane School Godalming Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.32 mi 2026/27 86%
Cranmere Primary School Esher No current grade 1.33 mi 2026/27 61%
Park Mead Primary Cranleigh No current grade 1.39 mi 2026/27 101%
Busbridge Infant School Godalming No current grade 1.41 mi 2026/27 96%
Danetree Primary School Epsom Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.42 mi 2026/27 109%
Oatlands School Weybridge Good 1.42 mi 2026/27 99%
Riverbridge Primary School Staines Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.42 mi 2026/27 109%
Holmesdale Community Infant School Reigate Report card 1.43 mi 2026/27 80%
Langshott Primary School Horley Good 1.48 mi 2026/27 98%
St Peter and St Paul Church Primary School Caterham Good 1.51 mi 2026/27 88%
Crawley Ridge Junior School Camberley Good 1.53 mi 2026/27 98%
St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School, Woking Outstanding 1.55 mi 2026/27 100%
Crawley Ridge Infant School Camberley Good 1.56 mi 2026/27 99%
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Addlestone Report card 1.6 mi 2026/27 104%
Burhill Primary School Hersham Good 1.63 mi 2026/27 87%
Hurst Park Primary Academy West Molesey Good 1.63 mi 2026/27 98%
Witley CofE Controlled Infant School Godalming Ungraded inspection, May 2025: standards maintained 1.65 mi 2026/27 84%
Prior Heath Infant School Camberley Report card 1.66 mi 2026/27 99%
Reigate Parish Church Primary School Reigate Ungraded inspection, July 2025: standards maintained 1.67 mi 2026/27 96%
Ottershaw Christ Church Church of England Infant School Chertsey No current grade 1.7 mi 2026/27 116%
Woodlea Primary School Caterham Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained 1.71 mi 2026/27 97%
Ewell Grove Primary and Nursery School Epsom Good 1.73 mi 2026/27 105%
Normandy Village School Guildford Inadequate 1.73 mi 2026/27 92%
Grayswood Church of England (Aided) Primary School Haslemere Good 1.76 mi 2026/27 96%
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Egham Requires improvement 1.78 mi 2026/27 100%
St John's Church of England Primary School Dorking Good 1.85 mi 2026/27 80%
The Horsell Village School Woking Good 1.86 mi 2026/27 96%
Barnett Wood Infant School Ashtead No current grade 1.99 mi 2026/27 89%
Laleham CofE VA Primary School Staines Good 2.01 mi 2026/27 97%
Heather Ridge Infant School Camberley Good 2.02 mi 2026/27 102%
Manby Lodge Infant School Weybridge Report card 2.02 mi 2026/27 100%
St Andrew's Church of England Infant School Farnham Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained 2.02 mi 2026/27 100%
St Polycarp's Catholic Primary School Farnham No current grade 2.08 mi 2026/27 103%
The Greville Primary School Ashtead No current grade 2.2 mi 2026/27 98%
Dormansland Primary School Lingfield Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained 2.38 mi 2026/27 99%
Claygate Primary School Esher Good 2.44 mi 2026/27 86%
The Raleigh School Leatherhead Outstanding 2.45 mi 2026/27 103%
Great Bookham School Leatherhead No current grade 2.48 mi 2026/27 102%
St Charles Borromeo Catholic Primary School, Weybridge Good 3.01 mi 2026/27 96%
Wonersh and Shamley Green CofE Aided Primary School Guildford Good 3.24 mi 2026/27 101%
Bagshot Infant School Bagshot Good 3.27 mi 2026/27 79%
Wallace Fields Junior School Epsom Report card 3.35 mi 2026/27 100%
Pirbright Village Primary School Woking Good 3.38 mi 2026/27 99%
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Godalming Good 3.46 mi 2026/27 100%
North Downs Primary School Betchworth Good 3.91 mi 2026/27 88%
Merrow Junior School Guildford Good 3.93 mi 2026/27 87%
Godstone Primary and Nursery School Godstone Good 3.96 mi 2026/27 100%
Peaslake Free School Guildford No current grade 4.14 mi 2026/27 64%
Powell Corderoy Primary School Dorking Good 4.19 mi 2026/27 93%
Tillingbourne Junior School Guildford No current grade 4.41 mi 2026/27 95%
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Leatherhead Outstanding 5.09 mi 2026/27 99%
Worplesdon Primary School Guildford No current grade 5.09 mi 2026/27 not published
Pewley Down Infant School Guildford Outstanding 5.82 mi 2026/27 100%
Walton-on-the-Hill Primary School Tadworth Report card 6.15 mi 2026/27 97%
Highfield South Farnham School Farnham Outstanding 6.44 mi 2026/27 228%
Ashley Church of England Primary School Walton-on-Thames Good 10.22 mi 2026/27 91%
Ottershaw Christ Church Church of England Junior School Chertsey No current grade 11.39 mi 2026/27 98%
Beaufort Primary School Woking Report card 20.14 mi 2026/27 98%

Secondary schools

School Ofsted Admitted from Round How full
St Andrew's Catholic School Leatherhead Outstanding 0.35 mi 2026/27 195%
All Hallows Catholic School Farnham Report card 0.52 mi 2026/27 104%
Gordon's School Woking No current grade 0.57 mi 2026/27 125%
Heathside Walton-on-Thames No current grade 0.74 mi 2026/27 73%
St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking No current grade 0.81 mi 2026/27 103%
The Bishop Wand Church of England School Sunbury-on-Thames Report card 0.84 mi 2026/27 122%
Hinchley Wood School Esher Outstanding 0.92 mi 2026/27 128%
Guildford County School Guildford Outstanding 0.94 mi 2026/27 99%
Cobham Free School Cobham Good 1.01 mi 2026/27 92%
Woking High School Woking Ungraded inspection, May 2025: standards maintained 1.15 mi 2026/27 115%
Reigate School Reigate Good 1.19 mi 2026/27 100%
Broadwater School Godalming Good 1.32 mi 2026/27 100%
The Matthew Arnold School Staines-upon-Thames Good 1.39 mi 2026/27 97%
Hoe Valley School Woking No current grade 1.43 mi 2026/27 90%
Glyn School Epsom Outstanding 1.49 mi 2026/27 103%
Tomlinscote School Camberley Outstanding 1.5 mi 2026/27 100%
Esher Church of England High School Esher Report card 1.61 mi 2026/27 97%
George Abbot School Guildford Good 1.85 mi 2026/27 99%
Blenheim High School Epsom Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.93 mi 2026/27 91%
Rosebery School Epsom Outstanding 2.04 mi 2026/27 102%
Thamesmead School Shepperton Good 2.15 mi 2026/27 100%
Warlingham School Warlingham Good 2.28 mi 2026/27 91%
Royal Alexandra and Albert School Reigate Good 2.43 mi 2026/27 82%
Farnham Heath End Farnham Good 2.45 mi 2026/27 102%
Weydon School Farnham Good 2.7 mi 2026/27 101%
Jubilee High School Addlestone Good 3.14 mi 2026/27 92%
St Paul's Catholic College Sunbury-on-Thames Outstanding 3.3 mi 2026/27 131%
The Ashcombe School Dorking Good 3.42 mi 2026/27 104%
Howard of Effingham School Leatherhead Good 3.83 mi 2026/27 97%
Chertsey High School Addlestone Good 3.95 mi 2026/27 98%
St Bede's School Redhill Outstanding 5.25 mi 2026/27 101%
de Stafford School Caterham Good 5.57 mi 2026/27 93%
Fullbrook School Addlestone Report card 6.25 mi 2026/27 84%
Rodborough Godalming Report card 6.36 mi 2026/27 98%
Woolmer Hill School Haslemere Good 10.51 mi 2026/27 110%
St Peter's Catholic School Guildford Outstanding 29.29 mi 2026/27 130%

If a place is refused

You can appeal. In 2025, 46 of 264 secondary appeals heard here were allowed (17.4%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together.

How to read this

Every refusal carries a right of appeal to an independent panel. In Surrey, panels heard 264 appeals for secondary places in the 2025 round and allowed 46 of them, 17.4%, against 19.9% across England. These are the council's figures for all its schools together: appeals are not published school by school, so no one can tell you the rate for one named school, and this page will not pretend to.

An infant class appeal, for reception to year 2, can only be allowed on narrow legal grounds, which is why its share is a fraction of the others.

Appeals in 2025LodgedHeardAllowedShare allowed
Secondary 383 264 46 17.4%
Primary 144 83 16 19.3%
Primary (infant classes) 82 52 6 11.5%

How every council compares, and what the figures are and are not.

How often children here are out of school

Primary schools here missed 4.9% of sessions in 2024/25 (England 5.2%), and 10.8% of pupils were persistently absent (England 13.0%).

How to read this

In Surrey, 4.9% of primary school sessions were missed in 2024/25, about the same as the 5.2% across England. That is days missed. The second figure is children: 10.8% of primary pupils here were persistently absent, meaning they missed a tenth or more of their sessions, lower than England's 13.0%.

2024/25 Sessions missed England Persistently absent England
Primary 4.9% 5.2% 10.8% 13.0%
Secondary 7.5% 8.4% 19.4% 23.4%
What the figures mean

Persistently absent means missing a tenth or more of their sessions, for any reason, authorised or not. A council's rate is moved by things no school controls, term-time holidays and a bad winter among them, so read it as the weather around the schools rather than a mark against them. Higher or lower is said only where the two rates differ by at least 1 percentage point.

These are Surrey's figures for all its schools together. The Department for Education publishes absence by council, not school by school, so no one can give you the rate for one named school from this release. Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk. Read on 1 October 2026.

Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, by council, not school by school

Reading the numbers

These are distances, not catchment areas, and they move every year.

How to read this

For every oversubscribed school, Surrey publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield. The address on the deadline is the one the council uses.

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Surrey measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Surrey. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.