Contested schools in South Gloucestershire
These are the South Gloucestershire 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 South Gloucestershire
Secondary schools (9)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downend School | 229 | 276 | 1.21 |
| Abbeywood Community School | 223 | 244 | 1.09 |
| Sir Bernard Lovell Academy | 236 | 255 | 1.08 |
| Brimsham Green School | 197 | 205 | 1.04 |
| Chipping Sodbury School | 144 | 148 | 1.03 |
| Bradley Stoke Community School | 150 | 150 | 1 |
| Yate Academy | 135 | 124 | 0.92 |
| Winterbourne Academy | 262 | 227 | 0.87 |
| Mangotsfield School | 207 | 176 | 0.85 |
Primary schools (42)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hambrook Primary School | 30 | 50 | 1.67 |
| North Road Community Primary School | 15 | 22 | 1.47 |
| Almondsbury Church of England Primary School | 45 | 63 | 1.40 |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Yate | 45 | 60 | 1.33 |
| Oldbury on Severn Church of England Primary School | 10 | 13 | — |
| Redfield Edge Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Alexander Hosea Primary School | 28 | 34 | 1.21 |
| Beacon Rise Primary School | 90 | 105 | 1.17 |
| Bromley Heath Infant School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Raysfield Primary School | 60 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Charlton Wood Primary Academy | 59 | 67 | 1.14 |
| Courtney Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Stanbridge Primary School | 60 | 67 | 1.12 |
| Kings' Forest Primary School | 60 | 66 | 1.10 |
| Longwell Green Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Christ The King Catholic Primary School, Thornbury | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Olveston Church of England Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| St John's Mead Church of England Primary School | 45 | 48 | 1.07 |
| Stoke Lodge Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| The Manor Church of England Primary School | 29 | 31 | 1.07 |
| St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Stoke Gifford | 88 | 93 | 1.06 |
| Emersons Green Primary School | 28 | 29 | 1.04 |
| Blackhorse Primary School | 60 | 62 | 1.03 |
| Bradley Stoke Community School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Charborough Road Primary School | 25 | 25 | 1 |
| Christ Church Hanham CofE Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Hawkesbury Church of England Primary School | 10 | 10 | — |
| Old Sodbury Church of England Primary School | 15 | 15 | — |
| Trinity Church of England Primary School | 17 | 17 | — |
| Coniston Primary School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Charfield Primary School | 26 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Wellesley Primary School | 28 | 27 | 0.96 |
| Lyde Green Primary School | 71 | 67 | 0.94 |
| Iron Acton Church of England Primary School | 15 | 14 | — |
| Marshfield Church of England Primary School | 19 | 17 | — |
| Christ Church, Church of England Infant School, Downend | 65 | 57 | 0.88 |
| Woodlands Primary School | 57 | 50 | 0.88 |
| Broadway Infant School | 59 | 50 | 0.85 |
| Gillingstool Primary School | 19 | 16 | — |
| St Barnabas Church of England Primary School | 27 | 22 | 0.81 |
| Frenchay Church of England Primary School | 48 | 38 | 0.79 |
| Tyndale Primary School | 59 | 43 | 0.73 |
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.