Contested schools in Sandwell

These are the Sandwell 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 Sandwell

Secondary schools (10)

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

Contested secondary schools in Sandwell, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Sandwell Academy	197	321	1.63
St Michael's Church of England High School	234	326	1.39
Shireland Collegiate Academy	244	332	1.36
West Bromwich Collegiate Academy	151	205	1.36
Bristnall Hall Academy	188	249	1.32
Q3 Academy Langley	292	344	1.18
Wood Green Academy	256	260	1.02
Wodensborough Ormiston Academy	210	201	0.96
Q3 Academy Great Barr	199	185	0.93
George Salter Academy	218	153	0.70

Primary schools (37)

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 Sandwell, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Grace Mary Primary School	28	40	1.43
Crocketts Community Primary School	60	84	1.40
Grove Vale Primary School	60	82	1.37
Timbertree Academy	30	41	1.37
Old Park Primary School	60	80	1.33
Oakham Primary School	60	76	1.27
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School	30	38	1.27
Hargate Primary School	59	72	1.22
Devonshire Infant Academy	89	107	1.20
Shireland Technology Primary	60	72	1.20
Lightwoods Primary Academy	59	69	1.17
Ocker Hill Infant School	60	70	1.17
Blackheath Primary School	60	67	1.12
Corngreaves Academy	30	33	1.10
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School	30	33	1.10
Hall Green Primary School	60	64	1.07
St James CofE Primary School	60	62	1.03
St Matthew's CofE Primary School	60	61	1.02
Hanbury Primary School	54	54	1
Holyhead Primary Academy	29	29	1
The Priory Primary School	60	60	1
Eaton Valley Primary School	60	59	0.98
Old Hill Primary School	27	26	0.96
Ryders Green Primary School	54	52	0.96
Tividale Community Primary School	54	52	0.96
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School	57	54	0.95
St Martin's CofE Primary School	21	20	0.95
Park Hill Primary School	27	25	0.93
Harvills Hawthorn Primary School	52	48	0.92
King George V Primary School	24	22	0.92
Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School	59	54	0.92
Galton Valley Primary School	59	53	0.90
St Margaret's CofE Primary School	30	27	0.90
St Mary's Catholic Primary School	29	26	0.90
Tividale Hall Primary School	40	36	0.90
St Mary Magdalene CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School	24	21	0.88
Springfield Primary School	46	40	0.87

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.