Contested schools in Stockport

These are the Stockport 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 Stockport

Secondary schools (8)

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

Contested secondary schools in Stockport, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Laurus Cheadle Hulme	204	330	1.62
Cheadle Hulme High School	262	415	1.58
Priestnall School	252	311	1.23
Stockport School	255	312	1.22
Marple Hall School	320	387	1.21
St James' Catholic High School	155	165	1.06
Stockport Academy	199	190	0.95
Hazel Grove High School	263	247	0.94

Primary schools (25)

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 Stockport, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Queensgate Primary School	29	49	1.69
Woodford Primary School	30	45	1.50
Alexandra Park Primary School	60	84	1.40
Fairway Primary School	30	39	1.30
All Saints Church of England Primary School Marple	30	38	1.27
Bradshaw Hall Primary School	59	75	1.27
Torkington Primary School	30	38	1.27
Ladybrook Primary School	30	37	1.23
Cheadle Hulme Primary School	60	73	1.22
Tithe Barn Primary School	30	34	1.13
Greave Primary School	44	49	1.11
Norris Bank Primary School	60	64	1.07
St Peter's Catholic Primary School	31	33	1.06
Great Moor Infant School	78	81	1.04
Gatley Primary School	90	92	1.02
Bredbury St. Marks CofE Primary School	22	22	1
St John's Church of England Primary School	20	20	1
Didsbury Road Primary School	52	51	0.98
Broadstone Hall Primary School	60	58	0.97
Norbury Hall Primary School	59	57	0.97
Banks Lane Infant School	86	77	0.90
St Simon's Catholic Primary School	21	19	—
Nevill Road Infant School	49	43	0.88
Pownall Green Primary School	60	52	0.87
Lane End Primary School	25	20	0.80

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.