Contested schools in Middlesbrough

These are the Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in Middlesbrough, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Macmillan Academy	257	382	1.49
Acklam Grange School	287	409	1.43
The King's Academy	216	220	1.02
Lift Unity City	196	175	0.89
Outwood Academy Riverside	205	114	0.56

Primary schools (14)

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 Middlesbrough, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Marton Manor Primary School	30	46	1.53
Sacred Heart Primary School	40	52	1.30
Hemlington Hall Academy	29	35	1.21
Linthorpe Community Primary School	88	100	1.14
St Thomas More RC Primary School	30	33	1.10
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School	30	32	1.07
Newham Bridge Primary School	39	41	1.05
Acklam Whin Primary School	60	61	1.02
Lingfield Primary School	24	24	1
St Alphonsus' Catholic Primary School	28	28	1
Rose Wood Academy	48	47	0.98
Abingdon Primary School	43	40	0.93
St Clare's RC Primary School	26	24	0.92
Archibald Primary School	51	39	0.76

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.