Torfaen School Catchment Areas

Torfaen is a compact authority with 25 schools — 14 primary and 1 secondary — meaning most families have a limited number of realistic options within a reasonable distance.

Expect the tightest competition in and around Torfaen and Pontypool, where popular primaries are regularly oversubscribed and last-distance-offered figures can shrink to a few hundred metres.

Admissions to all schools in Torfaen are coordinated by the council — catchment area and sibling priority are the most common tiebreakers when schools are oversubscribed.