Contested schools in Leicester
These are the Leicester 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 Leicester
Secondary schools (12)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madani Boys School | 90 | 202 | 2.24 |
| Madani Girls' School | 90 | 202 | 2.24 |
| Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School | 60 | 98 | 1.63 |
| English Martyrs' Catholic School, A Voluntary Academy | 185 | 244 | 1.32 |
| Crown Hills Community College | 306 | 383 | 1.25 |
| Brook Mead Academy | 245 | 301 | 1.23 |
| St Paul's Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy | 184 | 216 | 1.17 |
| Rushey Mead Academy | 356 | 413 | 1.16 |
| Avanti Fields School | 185 | 213 | 1.15 |
| Castle Mead Academy | 250 | 278 | 1.11 |
| Soar Valley College | 317 | 313 | 0.99 |
| Beaumont Leys School | 192 | 143 | 0.74 |
Primary schools (18)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avanti Fields School | 60 | 99 | 1.65 |
| King Richard III Infant and Nursery School | 60 | 73 | 1.22 |
| Parks Primary School | 60 | 73 | 1.22 |
| Montrose School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Sandfield Close Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Evington Valley Primary School | 45 | 49 | 1.09 |
| Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Granby Primary School | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy | 89 | 94 | 1.06 |
| St Mary's Fields Academy | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Highfields Primary School | 48 | 49 | 1.02 |
| Barley Croft Primary School | 36 | 36 | 1 |
| Sparkenhoe Community Primary School | 58 | 58 | 1 |
| Abbey Mead Primary Academy | 82 | 81 | 0.99 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy | 35 | 34 | 0.97 |
| Beaumont Lodge Primary School | 26 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Knighton Mead Primary Academy | 27 | 25 | 0.93 |
| Thurnby Mead Primary Academy | 27 | 24 | 0.89 |
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.