Contested schools in Coventry
These are the Coventry 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 Coventry
Secondary schools (11)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| President Kennedy School Academy | 297 | 471 | 1.59 |
| Sidney Stringer Academy | 209 | 319 | 1.53 |
| Barr's Hill School | 180 | 223 | 1.24 |
| Blue Coat Church of England School and Music College | 275 | 341 | 1.24 |
| Eden Girls' School, Coventry | 150 | 175 | 1.17 |
| Ernesford Grange Community Academy | 210 | 210 | 1 |
| Caludon Castle School | 238 | 236 | 0.99 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | 250 | 248 | 0.99 |
| Finham Park School | 270 | 257 | 0.95 |
| West Coventry Academy | 240 | 227 | 0.95 |
| Bishop Ullathorne Catholic School | 210 | 188 | 0.90 |
Primary schools (35)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | 59 | 79 | 1.34 |
| St Christopher Primary School | 59 | 77 | 1.31 |
| Christ The King Catholic Primary School | 60 | 78 | 1.30 |
| Courthouse Green Primary School | 90 | 116 | 1.29 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | 60 | 73 | 1.22 |
| Sidney Stringer Primary Academy | 60 | 71 | 1.18 |
| Moseley Primary School | 60 | 70 | 1.17 |
| St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| John Shelton Community Primary School | 29 | 32 | 1.10 |
| St John Vianney Catholic Primary School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Stivichall Primary School | 75 | 82 | 1.09 |
| All Souls' Catholic Primary School | 28 | 30 | 1.07 |
| Allesley Hall Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sowe Valley Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Whittle Academy | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Ravensdale Primary School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School | 45 | 47 | 1.04 |
| Stoke Heath Primary School | 60 | 61 | 1.02 |
| All Saints Church of England Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Grangehurst Primary School | 53 | 53 | 1 |
| Howes Community Primary School | 19 | 19 | — |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | 23 | 23 | 1 |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | 28 | 28 | 1 |
| Longford Park Primary School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Ernesford Grange Primary School | 48 | 46 | 0.96 |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | 57 | 55 | 0.96 |
| Stretton Church of England Academy | 22 | 21 | 0.95 |
| Broad Heath Community Primary School | 87 | 82 | 0.94 |
| Finham Primary School | 54 | 51 | 0.94 |
| Wyken Croft Primary School | 108 | 102 | 0.94 |
| Manor Park Primary School | 86 | 79 | 0.92 |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School | 28 | 25 | 0.89 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Infant School | 60 | 52 | 0.87 |
| Joseph Cash Primary School | 50 | 43 | 0.86 |
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.