Contested schools in Derby

These are the Derby 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 Derby

Secondary schools (7)

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

Contested secondary schools in Derby, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Landau Forte College	180	517	2.87
Littleover Community School	288	372	1.29
West Park School	279	296	1.06
Chellaston Academy	288	302	1.05
Derby Cathedral School	176	158	0.90
Saint Benedict, A Catholic Voluntary Academy	242	202	0.83
Derby Moor Spencer Academy	296	239	0.81

Primary schools (18)

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 Derby, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Becket Primary School	30	53	1.77
Griffe Field Primary School	60	95	1.58
Brookfield Primary School	30	46	1.53
Castleward Spencer Academy	30	43	1.43
Hackwood Primary Academy	30	40	1.33
Markeaton Primary School	60	71	1.18
Lawn Primary School	60	65	1.08
Homefields Primary School	44	47	1.07
Parkview Primary School	29	31	1.07
Wyndham Spencer Academy	60	64	1.07
Grampian Primary Academy	23	24	1.04
Silverhill Primary School	60	61	1.02
Oakwood Infant and Nursery School	71	71	1
Hardwick Primary School	60	59	0.98
St George's Catholic Voluntary Academy	49	48	0.98
Zaytouna Primary School	55	54	0.98
Bishop Lonsdale Church of England Primary School and Nursery	29	27	0.93
Ashgate Primary School	42	33	0.79

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.