HEREFORDSHIRE'S most oversubscribed schools have been revealed in new data.

Herefordshire Council made 1,680 offers of places in primary schools in 2020, with 1,608 getting their first choice of school, 55, getting their second choice, and four getting their third choice.

The remaining 13 children whose parents' preferences could not be met were offered a place in the nearest school to their home with available spaces.

A total of 1,763 secondary school offers were made that year, with 1,609 offered their first choice, 107 offered their second, and 16 offered a place at their third choice of school.

The remaining 31 places offered, were to parents whose preferences could not be met and their offer was for the nearest school to their home address with available spaces.

And, the figures show, some schools were vastly more popular than others.

Topping the table for primary schools is Hampton Dene Primary in Hereford, which had 46 more pupils than it had capacity for, with a total of 256 pupils on roll.

In second place was Clifford Primary, with 97 pupils on roll, 27 over capacity, while Madley Primary was 25 pupils over capacity, with 207 on roll, Shobdon Primary was 20 over capacity, with 90 on roll, and Whitchurch CofE Primary had 143 pupils, 17 over capacity.

At the other end of the table, however, there were 56 primary schools with unfilled places in Herefordshire.

Of those, the school with the most places to spare was Leominster Primary, which had 630 school places, but only 498 pupils, leaving 132 places unfilled.

Next up was Ashfield Park Primary in Ross-on-Wye, with 324 on roll and 96 places unfilled, while St Weonards Academy had 24 on roll and 81 places unfilled, Broadlands Primary in Hereford had 210 on roll and 74 places unfilled, and Stretton Sugwas Primary had 139 on roll and 71 places unfilled.

There were also mixed results for secondary schools, with four of 14 Herefordshire schools over capacity.

In Ross-on-Wye, John Kyrle High School topped the table at 100 pupils over capacity, with 1,310 places and 1,410 on the roll.

Fairfield High School in Peterchurch had 530 on roll, 80 over its 450 capacity, while Weobley High School had 523 on roll, 24 over capacity, and Whitecross in Hereford had 947 on roll, two over its capacity of 945.

Of the remaining 10, the school with the most unfilled places was The Hereford Academy, with 1120 places but only 528 on roll, leaving it 592 under capacity.

Leominster's Earl Mortimer College had 532 on roll, leaving 268 of its 800 places unfilled, Lady Hawkins College in Kington had276 on roll, 276 below its capacity of 510, The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School in Hereford had 995 on roll, 180 below its 1,175 capacity, and Kingstone High School had 574 on roll, 106 below its capacity of 680.