Contested schools in Shropshire
These are the Shropshire 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 Shropshire
Secondary schools (9)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Priory School | 168 | 231 | 1.38 |
| Bridgnorth Endowed School | 123 | 148 | 1.20 |
| The Thomas Adams School | 207 | 237 | 1.14 |
| St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community) | 49 | 54 | 1.10 |
| The Corbet School | 153 | 164 | 1.07 |
| Belvidere School | 168 | 168 | 1 |
| The Lacon Childe School | 99 | 95 | 0.96 |
| Lakelands Academy | 113 | 107 | 0.95 |
| Mary Webb School and Science College | 115 | 105 | 0.91 |
Primary schools (27)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hadnall Church of England Primary School | 15 | 20 | 1.33 |
| Coleham Primary School | 60 | 75 | 1.25 |
| Claverley CofE Primary School | 18 | 22 | 1.22 |
| Longnor CofE Primary School | 15 | 18 | — |
| Sheriffhales Primary School and Preschool | 15 | 18 | — |
| Oxon CofE Primary School | 60 | 70 | 1.17 |
| Barrow 1618 CofE Free School | 14 | 16 | — |
| Bowbrook Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Castlefields Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Stottesdon CofE Primary School | 15 | 17 | — |
| Tilstock CofE Primary and Nursery | 17 | 19 | — |
| St Marys CofE Primary School | 27 | 28 | 1.04 |
| Shifnal Primary School | 50 | 51 | 1.02 |
| Belvidere Primary School | 25 | 25 | 1 |
| Gobowen Primary School | 29 | 29 | 1 |
| Morda CofE Primary School | 20 | 20 | 1 |
| Moreton Say CofE Primary School | 10 | 10 | — |
| Norbury Primary School and Nursery | 6 | 6 | — |
| Onny CofE (A) Primary School | 6 | 6 | — |
| St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School and Nursery | 16 | 16 | — |
| St Laurence CofE Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community) | 21 | 21 | 1 |
| Pontesbury CofE Primary School | 26 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Mount Pleasant Primary | 40 | 38 | 0.95 |
| Hodnet Primary School | 29 | 27 | 0.93 |
| Longden CofE Primary School | 15 | 14 | — |
| St Giles CofE Primary School | 33 | 30 | 0.91 |
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.