Contested schools in Leeds
These are the Leeds 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 Leeds
Secondary schools (24)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
Primary schools (95)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roundhay School | 58 | 136 | 2.34 |
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston | 30 | 56 | 1.87 |
| Cookridge Primary School | 43 | 73 | 1.70 |
| Weetwood Primary School | 28 | 47 | 1.68 |
| St Chad's Church of England Primary School | 29 | 45 | 1.55 |
| Birchfield Primary School | 30 | 44 | 1.47 |
| Beecroft Primary School | 45 | 62 | 1.38 |
| Colton Primary School | 30 | 41 | 1.37 |
| Crossley Street Primary School | 30 | 41 | 1.37 |
| Farsley Springbank Primary School | 60 | 78 | 1.30 |
| West End Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Manor Wood Primary School | 60 | 77 | 1.28 |
| Calverley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | 44 | 56 | 1.27 |
| Carr Manor Community School | 60 | 76 | 1.27 |
| Collingham Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | 30 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Harewood Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | 15 | 19 | — |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School, Morley | 30 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Whitkirk Primary School | 59 | 75 | 1.27 |
| Greenside Primary School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Westerton Primary Academy | 59 | 72 | 1.22 |
| Cross Gates Primary School | 29 | 35 | 1.21 |
| Horsforth Featherbank Primary School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Wigton Moor Primary School | 60 | 72 | 1.20 |
| Greenmount Primary School | 60 | 71 | 1.18 |
| Talbot Primary School | 60 | 71 | 1.18 |
| Shire Oak VC Primary School | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| White Laith Primary School | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Beeston Hill St Luke's Church of England Primary School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Kippax Greenfield Primary School | 20 | 23 | 1.15 |
| Pudsey Primrose Hill Primary School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Whingate Primary School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Deighton Gates Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Morley Victoria Primary School | 60 | 68 | 1.13 |
| Lower Wortley Primary School | 46 | 51 | 1.11 |
| Rawdon St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | 45 | 49 | 1.09 |
| Adel Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Great Preston VC CofE Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Lady Elizabeth Hastings' CofE VA Primary School, Thorp Arch | 15 | 16 | — |
| Morley Newlands Academy | 88 | 94 | 1.07 |
| Roundhay St John's Church of England Primary School | 29 | 31 | 1.07 |
| Ryecroft Academy | 44 | 47 | 1.07 |
| St Philip's Catholic Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| St Theresa's Catholic Primary School | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Adel St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School | 31 | 33 | 1.06 |
| Allerton Bywater Primary School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Ashfield Primary School | 21 | 22 | 1.05 |
| Highfield Primary School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Calverley Parkside Primary School | 27 | 28 | 1.04 |
| Tranmere Park Primary School | 45 | 47 | 1.04 |
| Gledhow Primary School | 89 | 92 | 1.03 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Horsforth | 29 | 30 | 1.03 |
| Armley Park Primary School | 22 | 22 | 1 |
| Blackgates Primary Academy | 22 | 22 | 1 |
| Blenheim Primary School | 59 | 59 | 1 |
| Clapgate Primary School | 57 | 57 | 1 |
| Lawns Park Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Lowtown Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Methley Primary School | 57 | 57 | 1 |
| Otley All Saints CofE Primary School | 22 | 22 | 1 |
| Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School | 44 | 44 | 1 |
| Rothwell Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| St Patrick Catholic Primary School | 28 | 28 | 1 |
| Strawberry Fields Primary School | 45 | 45 | 1 |
| Swinnow Primary School | 22 | 22 | 1 |
| Victoria Primary Academy | 31 | 31 | 1 |
| Windmill Primary School | 50 | 50 | 1 |
| Bramhope Primary School | 60 | 59 | 0.98 |
| Kippax North Primary School | 30 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Drighlington Primary School | 54 | 52 | 0.96 |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | 27 | 26 | 0.96 |
| Brodetsky Primary School | 22 | 21 | 0.95 |
| Rosebank Primary School | 38 | 36 | 0.95 |
| Guiseley Primary School | 34 | 32 | 0.94 |
| Co-op Academy Beckfield | 29 | 27 | 0.93 |
| Moortown Primary School | 29 | 27 | 0.93 |
| St Nicholas Catholic Primary School | 45 | 41 | 0.91 |
| Horsforth Newlaithes Primary School | 58 | 52 | 0.90 |
| Manston Primary | 30 | 27 | 0.90 |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa | 20 | 18 | — |
| Thorpe Primary School | 21 | 19 | — |
| Pudsey Bolton Royd Primary School | 41 | 36 | 0.88 |
| Parklands Primary School | 31 | 27 | 0.87 |
| Beechwood Primary School | 55 | 47 | 0.85 |
| Chapel Allerton Primary School | 60 | 51 | 0.85 |
| Farsley Farfield Primary School | 60 | 51 | 0.85 |
| Shadwell Primary School | 26 | 22 | 0.85 |
| Austhorpe Primary School | 30 | 25 | 0.83 |
| Five Lanes Primary School | 48 | 40 | 0.83 |
| Hill Top Primary Academy | 30 | 25 | 0.83 |
| Westbrook Lane Primary School | 28 | 22 | 0.79 |
| Templenewsam Halton Primary School | 51 | 40 | 0.78 |
| Bardsey Primary Academy | 25 | 17 | — |
| Meanwood Church of England Primary School | 30 | 19 | — |
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.