Schools in Dorking
Dorking in Surrey has 17 schools in the catchment.school database, including 9 primaries, 2 secondaries – The Ashcombe School and The Priory Church of England School – and 6 other settings. Eleven of the 17 schools hold a religious designation (Church of England or Roman Catholic), the highest faith-school concentration in Surrey's commuter belt outside central Guildford. Each faith school publishes its own supplementary information form and faith-criteria assessment schedule.
Surrey County Council uses straight-line distance as the oversubscription tiebreaker at community schools. Ten schools are academies setting their own admissions rules. The average fill rate is 77%, and one school is currently at or above its admission number. All three Ofsted-rated schools in the area are rated Good or Outstanding. Surrey's annual School Admissions prospectus, published each September, includes the most recent 'last distance offered' data for each oversubscribed school in the Mole Valley area.
School demand in Dorking
Across the 16 schools in Dorking with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 77%. 1 of them is currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
11 schools in Dorking have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
10 of the schools in Dorking are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Surrey, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
3 of the schools in Dorking have a current Ofsted rating, of which 3 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary Schools in Dorking (9)
St Michael's CofE Aided Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Dorking · RH5 6EW
Newdigate CofE Endowed Aided Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Dorking · RH5 5DJ
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Dorking · RH4 3JA
St John's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Dorking · RH4 2LR
Surrey Hills All Saints Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Dorking · RH4 3QF
Scott-Broadwood CofE Infant School
Primary · Academy converter
Dorking · RH5 5JX
St Martin's CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Dorking · RH4 1HW
Powell Corderoy Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Dorking · RH4 3DF
St Paul's CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Dorking · RH4 2HS
Secondary Schools in Dorking (2)
Other Schools in Dorking (6)
Dorking Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school
Dorking · RH4 1BY
RGS Surrey Hills
Not applicable · Other independent school
Dorking · RH5 6EA
St Teresa's School
Not applicable · Other independent school
Dorking · RH5 6ST
Hurtwood House School
Not applicable · Other independent school
Dorking · RH5 6NU
The Weald CofE Primary School
Middle deemed primary · Academy sponsor led
Dorking · RH5 4QW
Unified Academy
Not applicable · Academy special sponsor led
Dorking · RH5 4DB
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Dorking are set by Surrey and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.