Contested schools in Medway
These are the Medway 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 Medway
Secondary schools (14)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brompton Academy | 205 | 351 | 1.71 |
| Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School | 201 | 336 | 1.67 |
| Fort Pitt Grammar School | 149 | 238 | 1.60 |
| Chatham Grammar | 150 | 185 | 1.23 |
| Rainham Mark Grammar School | 233 | 281 | 1.21 |
| The Rochester Grammar School | 204 | 240 | 1.18 |
| The Thomas Aveling School | 204 | 233 | 1.14 |
| Leigh Academy Rainham | 174 | 176 | 1.01 |
| Maritime Academy | 172 | 174 | 1.01 |
| Rainham School for Girls | 263 | 265 | 1.01 |
| The Howard School | 243 | 229 | 0.94 |
| The Victory Academy | 222 | 191 | 0.86 |
| Holcombe Grammar School | 179 | 137 | 0.77 |
| St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School | 174 | 102 | 0.59 |
Primary schools (25)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery) | 30 | 53 | 1.77 |
| Thames View Primary School | 60 | 87 | 1.45 |
| Leigh Academy High Halstow | 30 | 43 | 1.43 |
| Chattenden Primary School | 30 | 42 | 1.40 |
| Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo | 60 | 77 | 1.28 |
| St Margaret's at Troy Town CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School | 28 | 35 | 1.25 |
| Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School | 59 | 72 | 1.22 |
| St William of Perth Roman Catholic Primary School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Temple Mill Primary School | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Walderslade Primary School | 29 | 34 | 1.17 |
| Brompton-Westbrook Primary School | 60 | 67 | 1.12 |
| All Faiths Children's Academy | 27 | 29 | 1.07 |
| Greenvale Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Fairview Community Primary School | 89 | 94 | 1.06 |
| Cliffe Woods Primary School | 60 | 62 | 1.03 |
| Barnsole Primary School | 60 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Cuxton Community Infant School | 60 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Swingate Primary School | 90 | 91 | 1.01 |
| St Benedict's Catholic Primary School | 28 | 28 | 1 |
| St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Lordswood School | 41 | 40 | 0.98 |
| St Michael Catholic Primary and Nursery School | 47 | 46 | 0.98 |
| St Mary's Island Church of England (Aided) Primary School | 70 | 68 | 0.97 |
| St Nicholas CEVC Primary School | 22 | 18 | — |
| Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and the Marlborough | 80 | 62 | 0.78 |
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.