School Admission Appeals

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.

Contested secondary schools in Leeds, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Dixons Trinity Chapeltown 44 119 2.70
Roundhay School 232 444 1.91
The Ruth Gorse Academy 247 381 1.54
Trinity Academy Leeds 236 349 1.48
Carr Manor Community School 136 197 1.45
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School 179 249 1.39
The Morley Academy 270 369 1.37
Pudsey Grammar School 214 287 1.34
Abbey Grange Church of England Academy 237 296 1.25
Horsforth School 280 343 1.23
Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College 249 304 1.22
Rodillian Academy 292 353 1.21
Allerton High School 271 326 1.20
Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy 201 231 1.15
Leeds Jewish Free School 28 32 1.14
Boston Spa Academy 238 259 1.09
Mount St Mary's Catholic High School 188 201 1.07
The Farnley Academy 295 317 1.07
Cockburn School 295 285 0.97
Guiseley School 227 221 0.97
Temple Moor High School 237 225 0.95
St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy 201 179 0.89
Allerton Grange School 285 249 0.87
Leeds East Academy 164 101 0.62

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.

Contested primary schools in Leeds, 2026/27
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.