Contested schools in Halton

These are the Halton 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 Halton

Secondary schools (3)

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

Contested secondary schools in Halton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Wade Deacon High School	343	393	1.15
Sandymoor Ormiston Academy	148	158	1.07
The Heath School	223	216	0.97

Primary schools (12)

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 Halton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Moore Primary School	30	43	1.43
St Clement's Catholic Primary School	30	41	1.37
Daresbury Primary School	30	35	1.17
Lunts Heath Primary School	59	67	1.14
St Berteline's CofE Primary School	30	33	1.10
Beechwood Primary School	20	21	1.05
St Bede's Catholic Infant School	59	58	0.98
Hale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School	29	28	0.97
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School	56	53	0.95
Castle View Primary School	17	16	—
St Edward's Catholic Primary School	16	15	—
Pewithall School	26	22	0.85

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.