Contested schools in Hartlepool

These are the Hartlepool 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 Hartlepool

Secondary schools (1)

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

Contested secondary schools in Hartlepool, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
High Tunstall College of Science	263	339	1.29

Primary schools (8)

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 Hartlepool, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
West Park Primary School	45	55	1.22
Hart Primary School	15	17	—
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool	30	32	1.07
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School	30	31	1.03
Jesmond Gardens Primary School	42	42	1
St Bega's Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool	16	16	—
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool	27	26	0.96
St Peter's Elwick Church of England Primary School	8	6	—

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.