Contested schools in Sunderland

These are the Sunderland 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 Sunderland

Secondary schools (6)

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

Contested secondary schools in Sunderland, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Christ's College	89	115	1.29
St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy	208	252	1.21
Kepier	257	285	1.11
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington	209	230	1.10
Southmoor Academy	238	237	1
Castle View Enterprise Academy	196	190	0.97

Primary schools (23)

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 Sunderland, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Barnwell Academy	30	48	1.60
St Paul's CofE Primary School	45	68	1.51
Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy	45	62	1.38
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland	30	41	1.37
Willow Wood Community Primary School	28	38	1.36
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland	30	36	1.20
Rickleton Primary School	61	72	1.18
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland	60	71	1.18
Dubmire Primary	60	66	1.10
Mill Hill Primary School	60	66	1.10
East Herrington Primary Academy	59	63	1.07
Oxclose Primary Academy	28	30	1.07
Bernard Gilpin Primary School	60	63	1.05
Fatfield Academy	30	31	1.03
George Washington Primary School	43	43	1
Hetton Lyons Primary School	49	49	1
Hylton Castle Primary School	29	29	1
South Hylton Primary Academy	24	24	1
Fulwell Infant School Academy	83	81	0.98
Hasting Hill Academy	28	27	0.96
Eppleton Academy Primary School	30	28	0.93
St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington	24	22	0.92
St Anne's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School	27	23	0.85

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.