Contested schools in Redcar and Cleveland

These are the Redcar and Cleveland 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 Redcar and Cleveland

Secondary schools (6)

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

Contested secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Peter's Catholic College	123	172	1.40
Sacred Heart Catholic Secondary	146	167	1.14
Huntcliff School	117	122	1.04
Laurence Jackson School	248	241	0.97
Outwood Academy Bydales	140	136	0.97
Outwood Academy Normanby	141	122	0.87

Primary schools (10)

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 Redcar and Cleveland, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Margaret Clitherows RC Primary School	47	63	1.34
Wilton Primary Academy	12	15	—
Chaloner Primary School	30	35	1.17
Dormanstown Primary Academy	30	34	1.13
Galley Hill Primary School	30	33	1.10
Nunthorpe Primary Academy	29	32	1.10
Highcliffe Primary School	30	32	1.07
Ings Farm Primary School	60	61	1.02
Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy	17	17	—
Newcomen Primary School	45	42	0.93

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.