Contested schools in Nottingham

These are the Nottingham 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 Nottingham

Secondary schools (11)

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

Contested secondary schools in Nottingham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology	120	194	1.62
Nottingham Free School	120	185	1.54
Bluecoat Aspley Academy	187	275	1.47
Fernwood School	293	426	1.45
Bluecoat Trent Academy	237	287	1.21
The Trinity Catholic School A Voluntary Academy	187	209	1.12
Bluecoat Wollaton Academy	206	228	1.11
Park Vale Academy	186	168	0.90
The Oakwood Academy	157	142	0.90
The Nottingham Emmanuel School	177	146	0.82
Bluecoat Beechdale Academy	177	127	0.72

Primary schools (22)

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 Nottingham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Edna G. Olds Academy	31	49	1.58
Blessed Robert Widmerpool Catholic Primary and Nursery School	30	45	1.50
Haydn Primary School	61	89	1.46
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School	31	40	1.29
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School	59	74	1.25
Radford Primary School Academy	30	37	1.23
Sneinton St Stephen's CofE Primary School	32	39	1.22
Carrington Primary and Nursery School	30	36	1.20
Bluecoat Bentinck Primary Academy	30	32	1.07
Welbeck Primary School	45	47	1.04
Greenfields Community School	30	31	1.03
Middleton Primary and Nursery School	90	93	1.03
Hempshill Hall Primary School	37	37	1
Melbury Primary School	15	15	—
Our Lady & St Edward Primary & Nursery Catholic Voluntary Academy	26	26	1
Old Basford School	46	45	0.98
Robin Hood Primary School	60	58	0.97
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School	26	25	0.96
Springfield Academy	21	20	0.95
St Mary's Catholic Primary School	25	23	0.92
William Booth Primary and Nursery School	23	21	0.91
Bulwell St Mary's Primary and Nursery School	25	22	0.88

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.