Contested schools in Southend-on-Sea

These are the Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea

Secondary schools (8)

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

Contested secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Southend High School for Boys	177	308	1.74
The Eastwood Academy	220	359	1.63
Westcliff High School for Boys Academy	182	280	1.54
Westcliff High School for Girls	185	239	1.29
Southend High School for Girls	217	271	1.25
St Thomas More High School	179	202	1.13
St Bernard's High School	175	184	1.05
Chase High School	182	113	0.62

Primary schools (15)

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 Southend-on-Sea, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Barons Court Primary School and Nursery	35	89	2.54
Bournes Green Infant School	60	92	1.53
Earls Hall Primary School	84	113	1.35
St George's Catholic Primary School	29	35	1.21
Chalkwell Hall Infant School	88	105	1.19
Greenways Primary School	89	98	1.10
Eastwood Primary School & Nursery	57	61	1.07
West Leigh Infant School	120	129	1.07
Hamstel Infant School and Nursery	120	125	1.04
Darlinghurst Academy	60	61	1.02
Hinguar Community Primary School	30	28	0.93
Leigh North Street Primary School	66	60	0.91
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School	52	46	0.88
Blenheim Primary School	86	68	0.79
Milton Hall Primary School and Nursery	75	44	0.59

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.