Contested schools in Bracknell Forest
These are the Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest
Secondary schools (3)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranelagh School | 174 | 240 | 1.38 |
| Edgbarrow School | 228 | 286 | 1.25 |
| King's Academy Binfield | 164 | 169 | 1.03 |
Primary schools (16)
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.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Bracknell | 30 | 45 | 1.50 |
| Great Hollands Primary School | 29 | 43 | 1.48 |
| Fox Hill Primary School | 29 | 42 | 1.45 |
| Crowthorne Church of England Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Winkfield St Mary's CofE Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| King's Academy Binfield | 60 | 77 | 1.28 |
| The Pines School | 29 | 36 | 1.24 |
| King's Academy Oakwood | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Uplands Primary School and Nursery | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Warfield Church of England Primary School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Cranbourne Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Crown Wood Primary School | 90 | 99 | 1.10 |
| New Scotland Hill Primary School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Wildmoor Heath School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Whitegrove Primary School | 60 | 62 | 1.03 |
| Harmans Water Primary School | 60 | 55 | 0.92 |
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.