Contested schools in Gateshead

These are the Gateshead 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 Gateshead

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in Gateshead, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
XP Gateshead	50	95	1.90
Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead	257	363	1.41
St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon	244	263	1.08
Whickham School	279	289	1.04
Grace College	202	134	0.66

Primary schools (16)

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 Gateshead, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead	30	37	1.23
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell	30	36	1.20
Crookhill Community Primary School	30	33	1.10
Bill Quay Primary School	30	32	1.07
Kells Lane Primary School	60	64	1.07
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon	30	32	1.07
Rowlands Gill Community Primary School	30	31	1.03
Fellside Community Primary School	29	29	1
Highfield Community Primary School	16	16	—
Larkspur Community Primary School	20	20	1
St Agnes' Catholic Primary School, Crawcrook	27	27	1
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead	24	24	1
Clover Hill Community Primary School	30	29	0.97
Caedmon Community Primary School	28	27	0.96
St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon	25	24	0.96
Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School	27	26	0.96

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.