School Admission Appeals

Contested schools in East Riding of Yorkshire

These are the East Riding of Yorkshire 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 East Riding of Yorkshire

Secondary schools (10)

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

Contested secondary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Hessle High School and Penshurst Primary School 173 206 1.19
Headlands School 202 223 1.10
The Market Weighton School 126 138 1.10
Beverley Grammar School 139 147 1.06
Beverley High School 148 154 1.04
South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College 340 343 1.01
The Snaith School 186 187 1.01
Goole Academy 259 259 1
Withernsea High School 133 131 0.98
Driffield School and Sixth Form 228 217 0.95

Primary schools (38)

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 East Riding of Yorkshire, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Barmby Moor Church of England Primary School 15 24 1.60
Newbald Primary School 15 22 1.47
St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Fangfoss 15 21 1.40
Molescroft Primary School 60 80 1.33
Roos Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 15 20 1.33
Acre Heads Primary School 60 79 1.32
Elloughton Primary School 44 57 1.30
Nafferton Primary School 45 58 1.29
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Goole 13 16 —
Swanland Primary School 60 73 1.22
Cowick Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 18 21 1.17
Keldmarsh Primary School 58 66 1.14
St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 14 16 —
New Pasture Lane Primary School 20 22 1.10
Croxby Primary School 36 39 1.08
St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 15 16 —
Wawne Primary School 14 15 —
Westfield Primary School 60 64 1.07
Willerby Carr Lane Primary School 60 64 1.07
Woodmansey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 14 15 —
Airmyn Park Primary School 16 17 —
Kirk Ella St Andrew's Community Primary School 60 63 1.05
Boothferry Primary School 49 51 1.04
South Cave Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 30 31 1.03
Springhead Primary School 30 31 1.03
Howden Church of England Infant School 60 61 1.02
Eastrington Primary School 13 13 —
Pollington-Balne Church of England Primary School 15 15 —
Stamford Bridge Primary School 34 34 1
Snaith Primary School 43 42 0.98
Holme-upon-Spalding Moor Primary School 28 27 0.96
Hook Church of England Primary School 21 20 0.95
Walkington Primary School 30 28 0.93
Hessle High School and Penshurst Primary School 51 47 0.92
Marshlands Primary School 26 24 0.92
Wilberfoss Church of England Primary School 23 21 0.91
North Ferriby Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 40 35 0.88
Hunsley Primary 18 15 —

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.