Contested schools in Peterborough
These are the Peterborough 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 Peterborough
Secondary schools (8)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| The King's (The Cathedral) School | 127 | 366 | 2.88 |
| Greater Peterborough UTC | 60 | 78 | 1.30 |
| Manor Drive Secondary Academy | 146 | 181 | 1.24 |
| Arthur Mellows Village College | 262 | 287 | 1.10 |
| St John Fisher Catholic High School | 136 | 149 | 1.10 |
| Hampton Gardens Secondary School | 229 | 249 | 1.09 |
| Ormiston Bushfield Academy | 218 | 221 | 1.01 |
| Hampton College | 148 | 126 | 0.85 |
Primary schools (19)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John Henry Newman Catholic VA Primary School | 60 | 87 | 1.45 |
| Barnack CofE (Controlled) Primary School | 30 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Nene Valley Primary School | 43 | 54 | 1.26 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Hampton Lakes Primary School | 58 | 71 | 1.22 |
| Southfields Primary School | 59 | 66 | 1.12 |
| Hampton Hargate Primary School | 85 | 94 | 1.11 |
| Fulbridge Academy | 120 | 132 | 1.10 |
| All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Heritage Park Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Newark Hill Academy | 60 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Bishop Creighton Academy | 26 | 26 | 1 |
| Eye CofE Primary School | 54 | 54 | 1 |
| John Clare Primary School | 18 | 18 | — |
| Norwood Primary School | 23 | 23 | 1 |
| The Duke of Bedford Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| West Town Primary Academy | 48 | 47 | 0.98 |
| Castor CofE Primary School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | 47 | 45 | 0.96 |
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.