School Admission Appeals

Contested schools in Knowsley

These are the Knowsley 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 Knowsley

Secondary schools (4)

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

Contested secondary schools in Knowsley, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
All Saints Catholic High School 201 269 1.34
Lord Derby Academy 217 284 1.31
Halewood Academy 236 256 1.08
Kirkby High School 195 158 0.81

Primary schools (22)

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 Knowsley, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Malvern Primary School 59 112 1.90
Halewood Church of England Primary Academy 30 50 1.67
Roby Park Primary School 30 48 1.60
Blacklow Brow School 29 44 1.52
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School 30 42 1.40
Sylvester Primary Academy 30 39 1.30
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 30 38 1.27
Holy Family Catholic Primary School 44 55 1.25
St Brigid's Catholic Primary School 27 33 1.22
Kirkby CofE Primary School 40 48 1.20
St Andrew the Apostle Catholic Primary School 28 33 1.18
St Joseph the Worker Catholic Primary School 29 34 1.17
Millbrook Community Primary School 45 47 1.04
St Columba's Catholic Primary School 30 31 1.03
St Anne's Catholic Primary School 45 46 1.02
Knowsley Lane Primary School 60 60 1
St Marie's Catholic Primary School 20 19 —
Eastcroft Park School 29 27 0.93
Whiston Willis Primary Academy 59 54 0.92
Ravenscroft Community Primary School 29 26 0.90
Cronton Church of England Primary Academy 28 25 0.89
Prescot Primary School 60 48 0.80

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.