Contested schools in Plymouth

These are the Plymouth 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 Plymouth

Secondary schools (11)

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

Contested secondary schools in Plymouth, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Devonport High School for Girls	158	250	1.58
Coombe Dean School	170	262	1.54
Hele's School	233	279	1.20
Devonport High School for Boys	208	234	1.12
UTC Plymouth	115	115	1
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College	151	148	0.98
St Boniface's RC College	61	60	0.98
Eggbuckland Community College	179	171	0.96
All Saints Church of England Academy	130	123	0.95
Millbay Academy	103	95	0.92
Plymouth High School for Girls	119	104	0.87

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.

Contested primary schools in Plymouth, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Tor Bridge Primary School	30	48	1.60
Elburton Primary School	58	86	1.48
Widewell Primary Academy	30	41	1.37
College Road Primary School	29	39	1.34
Eggbuckland Vale Primary School	58	76	1.31
Glen Park Primary School	60	70	1.17
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	30	35	1.17
Mayflower Academy	60	69	1.15
Widey Court Primary School	89	102	1.15
Marine Academy Primary	60	67	1.12
Compton CofE Primary School	60	65	1.08
Knowle Primary School	30	32	1.07
Montpelier Primary School	90	89	0.99
Woodford Primary School	44	43	0.98
Mount Street Primary School	27	26	0.96
High View School	44	42	0.95
Morley Meadow Primary School	30	28	0.93
Manadon Vale Primary School	59	53	0.90
Woodfield Primary School	19	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.