Contested schools in Bradford

These are the Bradford 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 Bradford

Secondary schools (17)

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

Contested secondary schools in Bradford, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Dixons Kings Academy	151	344	2.28
Dixons City Academy	171	369	2.16
Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford	112	216	1.93
Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy	123	191	1.55
Beckfoot School	271	403	1.49
Dixons Trinity Academy	126	176	1.40
Carlton Keighley	171	230	1.35
Carlton Bolling	288	365	1.27
Dixons McMillan Academy	130	164	1.26
Trinity Academy Bradford	201	251	1.25
Ilkley Grammar School	290	343	1.18
St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy	283	297	1.05
Appleton Academy	163	164	1.01
Bingley Grammar School	282	266	0.94
Titus Salt School	236	218	0.92
Parkside School	199	132	0.66
Bronte Girls' Academy	149	96	0.64

Primary schools (65)

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 Bradford, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Harden Primary School	30	50	1.67
Holybrook Primary School	29	47	1.62
Foxhill Primary School	27	40	1.48
All Saints' CofE Primary School	30	43	1.43
Barkerend Primary Leadership Academy	58	83	1.43
Thackley Primary School	60	86	1.43
Fagley Primary School	26	37	1.42
Copthorne Primary School	60	84	1.40
Woodlands Church of England Primary Academy	15	21	1.40
St John's CofE Primary School	59	81	1.37
Woodside Academy	30	41	1.37
Low Ash Primary School	59	80	1.36
Dixons Marchbank Primary	57	77	1.35
Keelham Primary School	15	20	1.33
Carrwood Primary School	28	37	1.32
Dixons Music Primary	56	73	1.30
St Anne's Catholic Primary School	27	35	1.30
Ben Rhydding Primary School	30	36	1.20
Hollingwood Primary School	60	72	1.20
Burley Oaks Primary School	60	71	1.18
Dixons Allerton Academy	59	69	1.17
St Francis Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy	30	35	1.17
Steeton Primary School	29	34	1.17
Addingham Primary School	29	33	1.14
Our Lady of Victories Catholic School	29	33	1.14
Wellington Primary School	59	67	1.14
St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School	30	34	1.13
Stocks Lane Primary School	30	34	1.13
Cullingworth Village Primary School	45	50	1.11
Lees Primary School	30	33	1.10
Oakworth Primary School	60	66	1.10
Worthinghead Primary School	29	32	1.10
Crossflatts Primary School	60	65	1.08
Saltaire Primary School	60	65	1.08
Marshfield Primary	60	62	1.03
Oxenhope CofE Primary School	29	30	1.03
Blakehill Primary School	59	60	1.02
Cottingley Village Primary School	59	60	1.02
Swain House Primary School	59	60	1.02
Baildon Church of England Primary School	60	60	1
Bankfoot Primary School	29	29	1
Beckfoot Heaton Primary	86	86	1
Eastwood Community School	56	56	1
Girlington Primary School	56	56	1
Lilycroft Primary School	50	50	1
Myrtle Park Primary	19	19	—
Poplars Farm Primary School	58	58	1
St Cuthbert and the First Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy	24	24	1
St Paul's CofE Primary School	28	28	1
St Philip's CofE Primary School	19	19	—
St Walburga's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy	24	24	1
Worth Valley Primary School	20	20	1
Green Lane Primary School	55	54	0.98
East Morton CofE Primary School	30	28	0.93
Lift Feversham	60	56	0.93
Hoyle Court Primary School	26	24	0.92
Eldwick Primary School	56	50	0.89
The Academy At St. James	27	24	0.89
All Saints CofE Primary School	52	46	0.88
Horton Park Primary School	56	49	0.88
St Luke's CofE Primary School	30	26	0.87
Stanbury Village School	11	9	—
Appleton Academy	24	19	—
Hill Top CofE Primary School	20	15	—
Ashlands Primary School	40	25	0.62

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.