Contested schools in Luton

These are the Luton 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 Luton

Secondary schools (7)

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

Contested secondary schools in Luton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Denbigh High School	208	426	2.05
Chiltern Academy	228	272	1.19
Putteridge High School	234	274	1.17
Challney High School for Girls	219	233	1.06
The Chalk Hills Academy	290	308	1.06
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College	261	250	0.96
Icknield High School	292	238	0.82

Primary schools (11)

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 Luton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre	61	106	1.74
Leagrave Primary School	58	98	1.69
Bramingham Primary School	60	81	1.35
Tennyson Road Primary School	90	113	1.26
Denbigh Primary School	89	107	1.20
Dallow Primary School	89	99	1.11
Bushmead Primary & Nursery School	90	98	1.09
St Matthew's Primary School	119	121	1.02
Ramridge Primary School	59	59	1
Hillborough Infant and Nursery School	90	89	0.99
Stopsley Community Primary School	59	50	0.85

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.