Schools in Brentwood
Brentwood's 30 schools fall within Essex County Council's coordinated admissions scheme, covering 19 primaries and 5 secondaries in a commuter-belt town where strong rail links to London create high residential demand. Essex community schools use straight-line distance as the primary tie-breaker; secondary schools in Brentwood include both community and academy schools operating their own admissions arrangements, so criteria can differ significantly between institutions on the same street.
Primary catchment radii in Brentwood can be tight - Long Ridings and Warley have historically offered places to applicants within 400-600 metres in oversubscribed years. Families new to the area should check each school's specific admissions authority (Essex County Council for community schools, the school trust for academies) and consult offer-distance data from the preceding year, which catchment.school aggregates from each school's published admissions information.
School demand in Brentwood
Across the 30 schools in Brentwood with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 93%. 6 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
13 schools in Brentwood have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
14 of the schools in Brentwood are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Essex, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
10 of the schools in Brentwood have a current Ofsted rating, of which 10 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Brentwood: 4 oversubscribed (19)
Long Ridings Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brentwood · CM13 1DU
West Horndon Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brentwood · CM13 3TR
Doddinghurst Infant School
Primary · Community school
Brentwood · CM15 0NJ
Willowbrook Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brentwood · CM13 2TU
Warley Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brentwood · CM14 5LF
Ingrave Johnstone Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Brentwood · CM13 3NU
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, South Weald
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Brentwood · CM14 5QN
St Thomas of Canterbury Church of England Aided Primary School, Brentwood
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Brentwood · CM15 9BX
St Helen's Catholic Infant & Nursery School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Brentwood · CM15 9BY
Holly Trees Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brentwood · CM14 5RY
St Helen's Catholic Junior School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 9BY
Hutton All Saints' Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM13 1JW
Shenfield St. Mary's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 9AL
Larchwood Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Brentwood · CM15 9NG
Mountnessing Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 0UH
Doddinghurst Church of England Junior School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 0NJ
Hogarth Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 8BG
Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 0DH
Bentley St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 9SE
Secondary Schools in Brentwood (5)
St Martin's School Brentwood
Secondary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM13 2HG
Shenfield High School
Secondary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM15 8RY
Becket Keys Church of England Free School
Secondary · Free schools
Brentwood · CM15 9DA
Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School
Secondary · Academy converter
Brentwood · CM14 4EX
Brentwood County High School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led
Brentwood · CM14 4JF
Other Schools in Brentwood (6)
Woodlands School
Not applicable · Other independent school
Brentwood · CM13 3LA
Ursuline Preparatory School
Not applicable · Other independent school
Brentwood · CM13 3HR
Brentwood School
Not applicable · Other independent school
Brentwood · CM15 8EE
Woodlands School Hutton Manor
Not applicable · Other independent school
Brentwood · CM13 1SD
Grove House School
Not applicable · Free schools special
Brentwood · CM15 9DA
Endeavour Co-Operative Academy
Not applicable · Academy special converter
Brentwood · CM15 8BE
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Brentwood are set by Essex and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.