Contested schools in Stoke-on-Trent
These are the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent
Secondary schools (10)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's College | 150 | 285 | 1.90 |
| Trentham Academy | 146 | 182 | 1.25 |
| The Excel Academy | 238 | 271 | 1.14 |
| St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy | 209 | 219 | 1.05 |
| Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams | 171 | 178 | 1.04 |
| Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent | 264 | 272 | 1.03 |
| Ormiston Horizon Academy | 208 | 212 | 1.02 |
| Thistley Hough Academy | 208 | 211 | 1.01 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Academy | 197 | 197 | 1 |
| Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy | 233 | 208 | 0.89 |
Primary schools (26)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-op Academy Glebe | 30 | 48 | 1.60 |
| Eaton Park Academy | 60 | 83 | 1.38 |
| Waterside Primary School | 59 | 77 | 1.31 |
| Co-op Academy Hamilton | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sandon Primary Academy | 59 | 70 | 1.19 |
| Saint Nathaniel's Academy | 60 | 71 | 1.18 |
| Whitfield Valley Primary Academy | 60 | 68 | 1.13 |
| Jackfield Infant School | 59 | 66 | 1.12 |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | 60 | 67 | 1.12 |
| Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy | 60 | 66 | 1.10 |
| Greenways Primary Academy | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Priory CofE Academy | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| St Gregory's Catholic Academy | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Ash Green Primary Academy | 60 | 62 | 1.03 |
| St George and St Martin's Catholic Academy | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| New Ford Academy | 60 | 60 | 1 |
| Norton-Le-Moors Primary Academy | 29 | 29 | 1 |
| St Peter's Catholic Academy | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Newstead Primary Academy | 37 | 36 | 0.97 |
| St Marys Catholic Academy | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| The Willows Primary School | 76 | 72 | 0.95 |
| Hillside Primary School | 28 | 26 | 0.93 |
| Mill Hill Primary Academy | 58 | 54 | 0.93 |
| St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School | 28 | 26 | 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.