Contested schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

These are the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Secondary schools (15)

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

Contested secondary schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Poole Grammar School	177	243	1.37
Bournemouth School	179	238	1.33
Bournemouth School for Girls	180	239	1.33
Glenmoor Academy	190	232	1.22
Livingstone Academy Bournemouth	136	164	1.21
Winton Academy	184	217	1.18
St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole	170	190	1.12
Parkstone Grammar School	192	213	1.11
The Bourne Academy	171	181	1.06
Magna Academy	171	174	1.02
Poole High School	316	311	0.98
St Peter's Catholic Comprehensive School	184	180	0.98
Twynham School	206	192	0.93
Avonbourne Boys' Academy	169	146	0.86
The Bishop of Winchester Academy	149	82	0.55

Primary schools (26)

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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Avonwood Primary School	59	113	1.92
Springdale First School	60	89	1.48
Twynham Primary School	28	39	1.39
St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School	59	77	1.31
Bearwood Primary and Nursery School	30	36	1.20
Highcliffe St Mark Primary School	58	68	1.17
The Epiphany School	58	68	1.17
St Katharine's Church of England Primary School	60	69	1.15
Merley First School	60	68	1.13
Canford Heath Infant School	120	134	1.12
Lilliput Church of England Infant School	119	132	1.11
Pokesdown Community Primary School	60	66	1.10
Heatherlands Primary School	89	92	1.03
Livingstone Academy Bournemouth	60	62	1.03
St Luke's Church of England Primary School	39	40	1.03
Longfleet Church of England Primary School	86	84	0.98
St Mark's Church of England Primary School	42	41	0.98
Mudeford Community Infants' School	60	58	0.97
Malmesbury Park Primary School	61	58	0.95
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Christchurch	22	21	0.95
St Peter's Catholic Comprehensive School	59	56	0.95
Moordown St John's Church of England Primary School	59	54	0.92
Muscliff Primary School	60	55	0.92
Winton Primary School	103	95	0.92
Queen's Park Infant Academy	88	76	0.86
The Priory Church of England Primary School	15	10	—

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.