Contested schools in Buckinghamshire
These are the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire
Secondary schools (31)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
Primary schools (70)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey View Primary Academy | 29 | 53 | 1.83 |
| Little Chalfont Primary School | 30 | 51 | 1.70 |
| Chepping View Primary Academy | 57 | 87 | 1.53 |
| Ickford School | 20 | 30 | 1.50 |
| Drayton Parslow Village School | 15 | 22 | 1.47 |
| The Gerrards Cross CofE School | 58 | 84 | 1.45 |
| Halton Community Combined School | 30 | 42 | 1.40 |
| Naphill and Walters Ash School | 30 | 42 | 1.40 |
| Chartridge Combined School | 30 | 41 | 1.37 |
| St Louis Catholic Primary School | 59 | 80 | 1.36 |
| Chestnut Lane School | 60 | 79 | 1.32 |
| Haddenham St Mary's Church of England School | 58 | 74 | 1.28 |
| Butlers Court School | 60 | 75 | 1.25 |
| Edlesborough Primary Academy | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| High Wycombe Church of England Combined School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Danesfield School | 58 | 70 | 1.21 |
| Green Ridge Primary Academy | 90 | 109 | 1.21 |
| Little Kingshill Combined School | 29 | 35 | 1.21 |
| Speen CofE VA School | 14 | 17 | — |
| St Nicolas' Church of England Combined School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| The Aylesbury Vale Academy | 60 | 72 | 1.20 |
| Kingsbrook View Primary Academy | 60 | 70 | 1.17 |
| Radnage Church of England Primary School | 13 | 15 | — |
| Broughton Community Schools (Infants) | 60 | 68 | 1.13 |
| Maids Moreton Church of England School | 15 | 17 | — |
| Tylers Green First School | 60 | 68 | 1.13 |
| Bledlow Ridge School | 27 | 30 | 1.11 |
| Great Kimble Church of England School | 15 | 16 | — |
| Haddenham Community Infant School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Oakley Church of England Combined School | 15 | 16 | — |
| St Mary's Farnham Royal CofE Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Stoke Mandeville Combined School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| The Stoke Poges School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Denham Green E-ACT Primary Academy | 28 | 29 | 1.04 |
| Monks Risborough CofE Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Princes Risborough Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Turnfurlong Infant School | 90 | 93 | 1.03 |
| Waddesdon Village Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Whitchurch Combined School | 31 | 32 | 1.03 |
| Booker Hill Primary School & Nursery | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Curzon Church of England Combined School | 13 | 13 | — |
| Great Missenden CofE Combined School | 24 | 24 | 1 |
| Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School | 59 | 59 | 1 |
| Ley Hill School | 29 | 29 | 1 |
| Long Crendon School | 32 | 32 | 1 |
| Seer Green Church of England School | 29 | 29 | 1 |
| St Michael's Church of England Combined School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Steeple Claydon School and Pre-School | 18 | 18 | — |
| Ashmead Combined School | 87 | 86 | 0.99 |
| Bearbrook Combined School | 60 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Cedar Park School & Nursery | 30 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Chesham Bois Church of England School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Highworth Combined School and Nursery | 60 | 58 | 0.97 |
| St Mary's Church of England School | 60 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Juniper Hill School | 57 | 55 | 0.96 |
| Weston Turville Church of England School | 27 | 26 | 0.96 |
| Aston Clinton School | 54 | 51 | 0.94 |
| Kings Wood School and Nursery | 53 | 50 | 0.94 |
| Cheddington Combined School | 28 | 26 | 0.93 |
| Farnham Common Infant School | 44 | 41 | 0.93 |
| St Paul's Church of England Combined School, Wooburn | 27 | 25 | 0.93 |
| Great Kingshill Church of England Combined School | 48 | 44 | 0.92 |
| Padbury Church of England School | 13 | 12 | — |
| Loudwater Combined School | 30 | 27 | 0.90 |
| Mursley Church of England School | 15 | 13 | — |
| Brill Church of England School | 29 | 25 | 0.86 |
| Dropmore Infant School | 20 | 17 | — |
| Frieth Church of England Combined School | 26 | 22 | 0.85 |
| Chalfont St Peter Infant School | 60 | 47 | 0.78 |
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.