Contested schools in Southampton

These are the Southampton 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 Southampton

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Southampton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton	191	299	1.57
Cantell School	239	318	1.33
St Mark's Church of England School	113	150	1.33
Upper Shirley High School	215	248	1.15
Oasis Academy Sholing	209	225	1.08
Woodlands Community College	180	192	1.07
Redbridge Community School	223	230	1.03
Bitterne Park School	332	336	1.01
St Anne's Catholic School	205	167	0.81

Primary schools (18)

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 Southampton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Springhill Catholic Primary School	87	126	1.45
Highfield Church of England Primary School	43	58	1.35
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School	28	35	1.25
Redbridge Primary School	28	35	1.25
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School	59	73	1.24
Sinclair Primary and Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools	28	31	1.11
Glenfield Infant School	58	63	1.09
Hightown Primary School	28	30	1.07
St Denys Primary School	29	30	1.03
Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools	59	60	1.02
St John's Primary and Nursery School	41	42	1.02
Foundry Lane Primary School	42	42	1
Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools	89	88	0.99
Oakwood Primary School	50	49	0.98
Shirley Infant School	85	83	0.98
Moorlands Primary School	53	48	0.91
St Mark's Church of England School	43	39	0.91
Portswood Primary School	45	40	0.89

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.