Contested schools in Bath and North East Somerset

These are the Bath and North East Somerset schools that turned first-choice families away in at least one of the last three years — either because more families named them first than they had places, or because they refused families who named them first anyway. Figures shown are for 2026/27. Demand is not a forecast: an oversubscribed school turns more families away, which is not the same as their appeals succeeding more often.

Appeal success rates for Bath and North East Somerset

Secondary schools (8)

Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.

Contested secondary schools in Bath and North East Somerset, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Beechen Cliff School	172	256	1.49
Hayesfield Girls School	234	308	1.32
Oldfield School	207	238	1.15
Norton Hill Academy	279	303	1.09
Ralph Allen School	191	202	1.06
Chew Valley School	200	211	1.05
Saint Gregory's Catholic College	165	159	0.96
Wellsway School	226	202	0.89

Primary schools (18)

Primary schools are listed here as figures rather than pages. Most refusals at the Reception intake are infant class size cases, where a panel can only act on three narrow grounds and fewer than one in ten appeals succeeds — so the honest thing to publish is the data, not a page inviting an appeal.

Contested primary schools in Bath and North East Somerset, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Chew Stoke Church School	28	37	1.32
Freshford Church School	20	26	1.30
Saltford CofE Primary School	60	77	1.28
Widcombe Infant School	60	76	1.27
Norton Hill Primary School	59	72	1.22
Newbridge Primary School	57	67	1.18
Somerdale Educate Together Primary Academy	28	33	1.18
Longvernal Primary School	30	34	1.13
Pensford Primary School	15	17	—
Chew Magna Primary School	17	19	—
St Julian's Church School	16	18	—
St John's Church of England Primary School	30	33	1.10
Moorlands Infant School	59	64	1.08
St Stephens Church School	60	64	1.07
Bathwick St Mary Church School	28	28	1
St Andrew's Church School	30	30	1
Combe Down CofE Primary School	60	56	0.93
St John's Catholic Primary School	40	34	0.85

Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers, school-level file, 2026/27. Appeal outcomes are not published for individual schools — how we source and calculate the figures.