Contested schools in Cheshire East
These are the Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East
Secondary schools (10)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Thomas More Catholic High School | 124 | 159 | 1.28 |
| Middlewich High School | 126 | 150 | 1.19 |
| The Fallibroome Academy | 235 | 273 | 1.16 |
| Shavington Academy | 195 | 225 | 1.15 |
| Knutsford Academy | 226 | 244 | 1.08 |
| Sandbach School | 236 | 253 | 1.07 |
| Tytherington School | 229 | 240 | 1.05 |
| Wilmslow High School | 352 | 371 | 1.05 |
| Poynton High School | 243 | 248 | 1.02 |
| Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College | 249 | 250 | 1 |
Primary schools (56)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whirley Primary School | 31 | 51 | 1.65 |
| Ashdene Primary School | 60 | 83 | 1.38 |
| Havannah Primary School | 29 | 40 | 1.38 |
| Elworth CofE Primary School | 60 | 80 | 1.33 |
| Gorsey Bank Primary School | 60 | 78 | 1.30 |
| Weston Village Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Adlington Primary School | 14 | 18 | — |
| Hermitage Primary School | 29 | 37 | 1.28 |
| Bexton Primary School | 59 | 75 | 1.27 |
| Goostrey Community Primary School | 30 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Offley Primary Academy | 60 | 75 | 1.25 |
| Wrenbury Primary School | 20 | 25 | 1.25 |
| Calveley Primary Academy | 15 | 18 | — |
| Pikemere School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| St John the Evangelist CofE Primary School Macclesfield | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Shavington Primary School | 57 | 66 | 1.16 |
| Wistaston Academy | 59 | 67 | 1.14 |
| Rode Heath Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| The Quinta Primary School | 60 | 68 | 1.13 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe | 59 | 66 | 1.12 |
| Scholar Green Primary School | 29 | 32 | 1.10 |
| Worth Primary School | 13 | 14 | — |
| Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School | 15 | 16 | — |
| Lacey Green Primary Academy | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Prestbury CofE Primary School | 46 | 49 | 1.07 |
| Handforth Grange Primary School | 44 | 46 | 1.05 |
| St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | 21 | 22 | 1.05 |
| Hollinhey Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Millfields Primary Academy | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| The Dingle Primary School | 60 | 62 | 1.03 |
| Ash Grove Academy | 27 | 27 | 1 |
| Bollington Cross CofE Primary School | 18 | 18 | — |
| Disley Primary School | 23 | 23 | 1 |
| Vernon Primary School | 60 | 60 | 1 |
| Willaston Primary Academy | 27 | 27 | 1 |
| Woodcocks' Well CofE Primary School | 12 | 12 | — |
| Black Firs Primary School | 44 | 43 | 0.98 |
| Beechwood Primary School and Nursery | 59 | 56 | 0.95 |
| Brierley Primary School | 21 | 20 | 0.95 |
| Monks Coppenhall Academy | 80 | 76 | 0.95 |
| Marton and District CofE Aided Primary School | 30 | 28 | 0.93 |
| Edleston Primary School | 23 | 21 | 0.91 |
| Parkroyal Community School | 57 | 52 | 0.91 |
| Pear Tree Primary School | 23 | 21 | 0.91 |
| Chelford CofE Primary School | 10 | 9 | — |
| Excalibur Primary School | 27 | 24 | 0.89 |
| Leighton Academy | 57 | 51 | 0.89 |
| Acton Church of England Primary Academy | 25 | 22 | 0.88 |
| Buglawton Primary School | 30 | 26 | 0.87 |
| Smallwood CofE Primary School | 22 | 19 | — |
| Elworth Hall Primary School | 30 | 24 | 0.80 |
| Rainow Primary School | 20 | 16 | — |
| Nether Alderley Primary School | 10 | 7 | — |
| Egerton Primary School | 30 | 20 | 0.67 |
| Styal Primary School | 12 | 8 | — |
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.