Contested schools in Herefordshire, County of
These are the Herefordshire, County of 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 Herefordshire, County of
Secondary schools (6)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield High School | 107 | 145 | 1.36 |
| St Mary's RC High School | 146 | 189 | 1.29 |
| Weobley High School | 107 | 128 | 1.20 |
| Wigmore School | 88 | 93 | 1.06 |
| Whitecross Hereford | 186 | 193 | 1.04 |
| The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School | 215 | 189 | 0.88 |
Primary schools (21)
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.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stretton Sugwas CofE Academy | 30 | 47 | 1.57 |
| St Francis Xavier's Primary School | 30 | 40 | 1.33 |
| The Steiner Academy Hereford | 24 | 32 | 1.33 |
| Hampton Dene Primary School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Staunton-on-Wye Endowed Primary School | 16 | 18 | — |
| Clifford Primary School | 10 | 11 | — |
| Eastnor Parochial Primary School | 15 | 16 | — |
| Brockhampton Primary School | 17 | 18 | — |
| Ashperton Primary Academy | 29 | 30 | 1.03 |
| St James' Church of England Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Riverside Primary School | 87 | 89 | 1.02 |
| Brampton Abbotts CofE Primary School | 9 | 9 | — |
| Holmer CofE Academy | 60 | 60 | 1 |
| Kingstone and Thruxton Primary School | 25 | 25 | 1 |
| Shobdon Primary School | 12 | 12 | — |
| Our Lady's RC Primary School | 23 | 22 | 0.96 |
| Madley Primary School | 19 | 18 | — |
| Goodrich CofE Primary School | 18 | 17 | — |
| Cradley CofE Primary School | 10 | 9 | — |
| Gorsley Goffs Primary School | 27 | 24 | 0.89 |
| St Thomas Cantilupe CofE Academy | 28 | 24 | 0.86 |
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.