Contested schools in South Tyneside

These are the South Tyneside 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 Tyneside

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in South Tyneside, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Jarrow School	162	220	1.36
Whitburn Church of England Academy	201	241	1.20
Mortimer Community College	239	269	1.13
Harton Academy	266	290	1.09
St Joseph's Catholic Academy	246	261	1.06

Primary schools (16)

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 South Tyneside, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Valley View Primary School	27	46	1.70
Cleadon Church of England Academy	60	70	1.17
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, South Shields	30	33	1.10
St Aloysius Catholic Infant School, Hebburn	58	62	1.07
Laygate Community School	25	26	1.04
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, South Shields	23	24	1.04
Whitburn Village Primary School	25	26	1.04
St Mary's Catholic Primary School	30	31	1.03
East Boldon Infants' School	49	49	1
Hebburn Lakes Primary School	55	55	1
Ridgeway Primary Academy	52	52	1
Stanhope Primary School	26	26	1
Westoe Crown Primary School	90	90	1
West Boldon Primary School	37	36	0.97
Mortimer Primary School	51	49	0.96
St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, Jarrow	30	28	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.