Contested schools in Solihull

These are the Solihull 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 Solihull

Secondary schools (11)

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

Contested secondary schools in Solihull, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Grace Academy Solihull	172	242	1.41
Tudor Grange Academy, Solihull	277	377	1.36
Langley School	178	216	1.21
St Peter's Catholic School	198	237	1.20
John Henry Newman Catholic College	235	269	1.14
Park Hall Academy	235	263	1.12
Alderbrook School	267	289	1.08
Light Hall School	194	197	1.02
Arden	315	307	0.97
Lyndon School	236	230	0.97
Lode Heath School	246	123	0.50

Primary schools (20)

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 Solihull, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St James	29	79	2.72
Oak Cottage Primary School	30	77	2.57
St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary School	30	53	1.77
St Margaret's Church of England Primary School	28	45	1.61
Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School	27	38	1.41
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School	30	37	1.23
Smith's Wood Primary Academy	60	73	1.22
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree	29	32	1.10
St Patricks Church of England Primary Academy	30	32	1.07
Dorridge Primary School	89	91	1.02
Knowle Church of England Primary Academy	60	60	1
Fordbridge Community Primary School	60	59	0.98
Mill Lodge Primary School	30	29	0.97
George Fentham Endowed School	28	27	0.96
Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School	118	112	0.95
Marston Green Infant Academy	73	69	0.95
Ulverley School	47	44	0.94
Streetsbrook Infant and Early Years Academy	60	54	0.90
Greswold Primary School	86	75	0.87
Kineton Green Primary School	29	23	0.79

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.