Schools in Doncaster

Doncaster has 151 schools across a large metropolitan borough that includes the town centre as well as towns such as Mexborough, Thorne, Conisbrough and Armthorpe. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) coordinates admissions for community schools; academies, which form a significant proportion of Doncaster's secondary schools, apply their own admissions policies.

Doncaster operates a defined feeder primary school system for some of its secondary schools, meaning that children at certain primaries are given priority at linked secondaries. Families should check whether their primary is a named feeder for any target secondary before completing their preferences.

Most of Doncaster's primaries use straight-line distance as the final tiebreaker. Rural schools across the borough may have smaller cohorts, while schools in Doncaster town centre and in the more suburban southern parishes can see keener competition.