School Admission Appeals

Contested schools in Liverpool

These are the Liverpool 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 Liverpool

Secondary schools (20)

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

Contested secondary schools in Liverpool, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
St Edward's College 159 357 2.25
Liverpool College 164 317 1.93
North Liverpool Academy 219 410 1.87
The Belvedere Academy 188 345 1.84
St Hilda's Church of England High School 152 269 1.77
Archbishop Beck Catholic College 187 326 1.74
Calderstones School 258 375 1.45
Archbishop Blanch CofE High School 185 258 1.39
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School 219 299 1.37
St Julie's Catholic High School 175 226 1.29
West Derby School 174 200 1.15
King David High School 133 151 1.14
The Blue Coat School 178 197 1.11
St John Bosco Arts College 193 206 1.07
Childwall Sports & Science Academy 172 167 0.97
Broughton Hall Catholic High School 206 190 0.92
Notre Dame Catholic Academy 179 145 0.81
St Margaret's Church of England Academy 186 136 0.73
The Academy of St Francis of Assisi 169 98 0.58
Gateacre School 216 119 0.55

Primary schools (46)

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 Liverpool, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Liverpool College 88 255 2.90
Runnymede St Edward's Catholic Primary School 59 128 2.17
St Sebastian's Catholic Primary School and Nursery 30 48 1.60
Knotty Ash Primary School 27 39 1.44
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 58 81 1.40
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, West Derby 30 40 1.33
St Silas Church of England Primary School 45 59 1.31
Smithdown Primary School 60 78 1.30
Matthew Arnold Primary School 30 38 1.27
Arnot St Mary CofE Primary School 58 73 1.26
Heygreen Primary School 30 36 1.20
Whitefield Primary School 43 51 1.19
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School 60 71 1.18
Florence Melly Community Primary School 58 68 1.17
Holy Name Catholic Primary School 44 48 1.09
Emmaus Church of England and Catholic Primary School 59 64 1.08
St Paschal Baylon Catholic Primary School 60 65 1.08
Our Lady and St Philomena's Catholic Primary School 30 32 1.07
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 20 21 1.05
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 28 29 1.04
Childwall Church of England Primary School 60 62 1.03
Christ The King Catholic Primary School 60 62 1.03
Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School, Woolton 60 61 1.02
Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School 16 16 —
King David Primary School 58 57 0.98
St John's Catholic Primary School 56 55 0.98
Dovedale Community Primary School 120 117 0.97
Garston Church of England Primary School 29 28 0.97
Pleasant Street Primary School 30 29 0.97
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 22 21 0.95
Our Lady and St Swithin's Catholic Primary School 21 20 0.95
Childwall Valley Primary School 23 21 0.91
Kirkdale St Lawrence CofE VA Primary School 34 31 0.91
Broadgreen Primary 30 27 0.90
New Park Primary School 51 46 0.90
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary and Nursery School 20 18 —
Northcote Primary School 55 49 0.89
St Paul's and St Timothy's Catholic Infant School 120 106 0.88
Ranworth Square Primary School 30 26 0.87
The Beacon Church of England Primary School 41 35 0.85
Springwood Heath Primary School 18 15 —
St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School 30 25 0.83
Kingsley Community School 59 47 0.80
Rudston Primary School 55 43 0.78
Sudley Primary School 120 94 0.78
Booker Avenue Infant School 89 66 0.74

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.