Contested schools in Northumberland
These are the Northumberland 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 Northumberland
Secondary schools (7)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bede Academy | 131 | 174 | 1.33 |
| Ponteland High School | 235 | 273 | 1.16 |
| Cramlington Learning Village | 340 | 343 | 1.01 |
| NCEA Duke's Secondary School | 170 | 171 | 1.01 |
| The Duchess's Community High School | 188 | 189 | 1.01 |
| Ashington Academy | 203 | 204 | 1 |
| Bedlington Academy | 158 | 158 | 1 |
Primary schools (30)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnside Primary School | 60 | 81 | 1.35 |
| Felton Church of England Primary School | 14 | 18 | — |
| Beaconhill Community Primary School | 30 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Ponteland Primary School | 58 | 70 | 1.21 |
| Bedlington West End Primary School | 29 | 34 | 1.17 |
| Eastlea Primary School | 29 | 34 | 1.17 |
| Henshaw Church of England Primary School | 6 | 7 | — |
| Corbridge (VA) Church of England First School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Seaton Sluice First School | 27 | 30 | 1.11 |
| Belford Primary School | 10 | 11 | — |
| Darras Hall Primary School | 58 | 63 | 1.09 |
| Ovingham Church of England First School | 11 | 12 | — |
| Hipsburn Primary School | 13 | 14 | — |
| Beaufront First School | 15 | 16 | — |
| Choppington Primary School | 14 | 15 | — |
| Malvin's Close Academy | 48 | 50 | 1.04 |
| NCEA Thomas Bewick C of E Primary School | 28 | 29 | 1.04 |
| St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Ashington | 28 | 29 | 1.04 |
| NCEA Grace Darling CofE Primary School | 35 | 36 | 1.03 |
| Abbeyfields First School | 50 | 51 | 1.02 |
| The Sele First School | 58 | 59 | 1.02 |
| Acomb First School | 6 | 6 | — |
| Longhorsley St Helen's Church of England Aided First School | 16 | 16 | — |
| Morpeth Stobhillgate First School | 20 | 20 | 1 |
| New Hartley First School | 18 | 18 | — |
| Stannington First School | 27 | 27 | 1 |
| Swansfield Park Primary School | 43 | 43 | 1 |
| Stead Lane Primary School | 30 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Heddon-on-the-Wall, St Andrew's Church of England Primary School | 29 | 27 | 0.93 |
| Ponteland Community Primary School | 20 | 17 | — |
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.