Contested schools in Blackpool

These are the Blackpool 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 Blackpool

Secondary schools (4)

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

Contested secondary schools in Blackpool, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St George's School A Church of England Academy	207	298	1.44
St Mary's Catholic Academy	204	245	1.20
Armfield Academy	159	180	1.13
Montgomery Academy	248	232	0.94

Primary schools (15)

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 Blackpool, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Westcliff Primary Academy	29	41	1.41
Holy Family Catholic Primary School	30	35	1.17
Roseacre Primary Academy	60	67	1.12
Kincraig Primary School	29	32	1.10
Unity Academy Blackpool	30	33	1.10
Christ The King Catholic Academy	30	32	1.07
Moor Park Primary School	28	30	1.07
Stanley Primary School	86	91	1.06
Armfield Academy	59	62	1.05
Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School	60	62	1.03
Marton Primary Academy and Nursery	30	31	1.03
St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School	30	31	1.03
St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool	60	61	1.02
Blackpool Gateway Academy	30	30	1
Devonshire Primary Academy	60	60	1

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.