Contested schools in Reading

These are the Reading 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 Reading

Secondary schools (6)

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

Contested secondary schools in Reading, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Kendrick School	127	351	2.76
Reading School	146	400	2.74
River Academy	162	211	1.30
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre	243	191	0.79
Maiden Erlegh School in Reading	169	131	0.78
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School	174	132	0.76

Primary schools (13)

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 Reading, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
All Saints Church of England Aided Infant School	20	37	1.85
Battle Primary Academy	60	80	1.33
The Hill Primary School	60	77	1.28
Moorlands Primary School	30	38	1.27
Oxford Road Community School	30	38	1.27
The Heights Primary School	50	63	1.26
Caversham Primary School	60	63	1.05
Katesgrove Primary School	90	88	0.98
Coley Primary School	30	29	0.97
Alfred Sutton Primary School	85	81	0.95
St John's Church of England Primary School	58	55	0.95
Emmer Green Primary School	60	56	0.93
Wilson Primary School	60	55	0.92

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.