Contested schools in North Lincolnshire

These are the North Lincolnshire 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 North Lincolnshire

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in North Lincolnshire, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Frederick Gough School	262	295	1.13
Outwood Academy Foxhills	146	161	1.10
Sir John Nelthorpe School	144	145	1.01
South Axholme Academy	186	182	0.98
The Axholme Academy	95	92	0.97

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 North Lincolnshire, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Gunness and Burringham Church of England Primary School	14	18	—
Scunthorpe CofE Primary School	30	37	1.23
Bottesford Infant School	70	82	1.17
St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School	44	50	1.14
West Butterwick C of E Primary Academy	7	8	—
Winteringham Primary School	14	16	—
Holme Valley Primary School	59	65	1.10
Lincoln Gardens Primary School	60	66	1.10
Bowmandale Primary School	60	63	1.05
John Harrison C of E Primary School	29	30	1.03
Bushfield Road Infant School	51	51	1
Crowle Primary Academy	26	25	0.96
Oasis Academy Henderson Avenue	82	78	0.95
St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary Voluntary Academy	41	38	0.93

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.