Contested schools in Calderdale

These are the Calderdale 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 Calderdale

Secondary schools (8)

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

Contested secondary schools in Calderdale, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
The Crossley Heath School	177	293	1.66
The North Halifax Grammar School	180	240	1.33
Trinity Academy Halifax	320	349	1.09
Ryburn Valley High School	254	261	1.03
Brighouse High School	203	198	0.98
Rastrick High School	347	322	0.93
Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy	157	140	0.89
The Halifax Academy	185	157	0.85

Primary schools (20)

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 Calderdale, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Bolton Brow Primary Academy	29	39	1.34
Moorside Community Primary School	28	35	1.25
All Saints' CofE Primary School	30	36	1.20
Northowram Primary School	60	72	1.20
Bowling Green Academy	26	31	1.19
Parkinson Lane Community Primary School	60	69	1.15
Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School	29	32	1.10
Old Earth Primary School	59	63	1.07
Warley Road Primary Academy	60	64	1.07
Salterhebble Junior and Infant School	27	28	1.04
Abbey Park Academy	18	18	—
Dean Field Community Primary School	19	19	—
Hebden Royd CofE Primary School	7	7	—
Ling Bob Junior, Infant and Nursery School	40	40	1
Trinity Academy Akroydon	13	13	—
Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) Primary School	19	19	—
Woodhouse Primary School	52	51	0.98
Cross Lane Primary and Nursery School	36	35	0.97
Copley Primary School	45	40	0.89
Luddendenfoot Academy	25	21	0.84

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.