Contested schools in Milton Keynes

These are the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes

Secondary schools (10)

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

Contested secondary schools in Milton Keynes, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Oakgrove School	237	346	1.46
Glebe Farm School	124	172	1.39
Denbigh School	257	327	1.27
E-Act Ousedale School	352	386	1.10
Watling Academy	351	380	1.08
St Paul's Catholic School	258	274	1.06
Shenley Brook End School	296	298	1.01
Lord Grey Academy	247	241	0.98
The Radcliffe School	199	174	0.87
Kents Hill Park all-through school	118	56	0.47

Primary schools (21)

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 Milton Keynes, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Glebe Farm School	82	131	1.60
Bow Brickhill CofE VA Primary School	15	22	1.47
Middleton Primary School	90	129	1.43
Caroline Haslett Primary School	60	74	1.23
Fairfields Primary School	90	105	1.17
Howe Park School	29	33	1.14
Watling Primary School	49	56	1.14
Holne Chase Primary School	30	33	1.10
Whitehouse Primary School	90	98	1.09
Kents Hill Park all-through school	30	31	1.03
Russell Street School	60	61	1.02
Castlethorpe First School	15	15	—
Green Park School	32	32	1
Newton Leys Primary School	82	80	0.98
Priory Rise School	90	87	0.97
The Premier Academy	65	63	0.97
Oxley Park Academy	85	82	0.96
Willen Primary School	23	22	0.96
Lavendon School	19	18	—
Loughton Manor First School	52	46	0.88
Heelands School	21	18	—

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.