Contested schools in Isle of Wight

These are the Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in Isle of Wight, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
The Island Free School	111	204	1.84
Carisbrooke College	110	143	1.30
Christ The King College	230	236	1.03
Lift Ryde	265	272	1.03
Cowes Enterprise College, An Ormiston Academy	202	175	0.87

Primary schools (11)

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 Isle of Wight, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Dover Park Primary School	29	45	1.55
Brighstone Church of England Aided Primary School	11	16	—
Godshill Primary School	23	28	1.22
Nine Acres Primary School	58	65	1.12
Gurnard Primary School	60	66	1.10
Newchurch Primary School	30	32	1.07
Binstead Primary School	29	29	1
Broadlea Primary School	18	18	—
Carisbrooke Church of England Controlled Primary School	34	33	0.97
Wootton Community Primary School	30	28	0.93
Freshwater & Yarmouth Church of England Aided Primary School	25	22	0.88

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.