Contested schools in Oldham

These are the Oldham 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 Oldham

Secondary schools (6)

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

Contested secondary schools in Oldham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
The Blue Coat CofE School	232	611	2.63
The Brian Clarke Church of England Academy	224	458	2.04
The Crompton House Church of England Academy	296	333	1.12
North Chadderton School	262	288	1.10
The Hathershaw College	200	167	0.83
Saint John Henry Newman Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy	265	186	0.70

Primary schools (35)

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 Oldham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Fir Bank Primary School	29	48	1.66
Greenacres Primary Academy	29	44	1.52
Whitegate End Primary and Nursery School	25	38	1.52
Propps Hall Junior Infant and Nursery School	28	42	1.50
Westwood Academy	30	44	1.47
St Anne's CofE Lydgate Primary School	28	41	1.46
Broadfield Primary School	42	58	1.38
St Mary's CofE Primary School High Crompton	29	39	1.34
Roundthorn Primary Academy	29	37	1.28
Holy Trinity CofE Dobcross Primary School	30	38	1.27
St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School	29	36	1.24
Buckstones Primary School	30	37	1.23
Greenhill Academy	59	68	1.15
Crompton Primary School	29	33	1.14
Coppice Primary Academy	59	65	1.10
Glodwick Infant and Nursery School	86	91	1.06
Lyndhurst Primary and Nursery School	57	60	1.05
St Matthew's CofE Primary School	59	62	1.05
Burnley Brow Community School	60	62	1.03
Greenfield Primary School	60	62	1.03
Thorp Primary School	30	31	1.03
St Agnes CofE Primary School	15	15	—
St Anne's CofE (Aided) Primary School	40	40	1
St Martin's CofE Junior Infant and Nursery School	23	23	1
Woodhouses Voluntary Primary School	20	20	1
Hodge Clough Primary School	46	45	0.98
Holy Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy	23	22	0.96
St Thomas CofE Primary School	51	49	0.96
Horton Mill Community Primary School	30	28	0.93
St Herbert's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy	39	35	0.90
Beal Vale Primary School	28	25	0.89
Hey-with-Zion Primary School	39	34	0.87
St. Paul's CofE Primary School	22	18	—
Friezland Primary School	12	9	—
Delph Primary School	29	21	0.72

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.