Contested schools in North Somerset

These are the North Somerset 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 Somerset

Secondary schools (7)

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

Contested secondary schools in North Somerset, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Clevedon School	225	271	1.20
Hans Price Academy	196	234	1.19
Backwell School	263	276	1.05
Priory Community School	269	264	0.98
Winterstoke Hundred Academy	143	135	0.94
Gordano School	296	266	0.90
St Katherine's School	185	165	0.89

Primary schools (23)

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 Somerset, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Uphill Village Academy	43	58	1.35
Churchill Church of England Primary School	30	36	1.20
Mead Vale Community Primary School	28	33	1.18
Yeo Moor Primary School	60	70	1.17
Chestnut Park Primary	30	34	1.13
Winscombe Primary School	30	34	1.13
Birdwell Primary School	60	66	1.10
Locking Primary School	59	65	1.10
St Georges Church School	30	33	1.10
St Peter's Church of England Primary School	85	86	1.01
Castle Batch Primary School Academy	41	41	1
High Down Infant School	40	40	1
Oldmixon Primary School	19	19	—
St Anne's Church Academy	52	52	1
Mendip Green Primary School	82	80	0.98
Crockerne Church of England Primary School	34	33	0.97
Flax Bourton Church of England Primary School	25	24	0.96
Haywood Village Academy	55	53	0.96
All Saints Church of England Primary School	19	18	—
Christ Church Church of England Primary School	26	24	0.92
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Portbury	13	12	—
Wrington Church of England Primary School	26	24	0.92
Sandford Primary School	14	11	—

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.