Contested schools in Swindon
These are the Swindon 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 Swindon
Secondary schools (7)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey Park School | 240 | 303 | 1.26 |
| Swindon Academy | 200 | 224 | 1.12 |
| The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College | 270 | 300 | 1.11 |
| The Dorcan Academy | 170 | 187 | 1.10 |
| Kingsdown School | 232 | 237 | 1.02 |
| The Commonweal School | 232 | 235 | 1.01 |
| Great Western Academy | 180 | 162 | 0.90 |
Primary schools (20)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Croft Primary School | 60 | 93 | 1.55 |
| South Marston Church of England Primary School | 16 | 22 | 1.38 |
| Rodbourne Cheney Primary School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Westrop Primary & Nursery School | 45 | 52 | 1.16 |
| Lift Hazelwood | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Haydon Wick Primary School | 40 | 45 | 1.12 |
| William Morris Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Brook Field Primary School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Haydonleigh Primary School | 60 | 62 | 1.03 |
| Westlea Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Colebrook Infant Academy | 40 | 40 | 1 |
| Peatmoor Community Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Red Oaks Primary School | 37 | 37 | 1 |
| Tregoze Primary School | 24 | 24 | 1 |
| Millbrook Primary School | 42 | 41 | 0.98 |
| Wroughton Infant School | 60 | 59 | 0.98 |
| Bridlewood Primary School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Lainesmead Primary School and Nursery | 36 | 34 | 0.94 |
| Shaw Ridge Primary School | 45 | 39 | 0.87 |
| Lethbridge Primary School | 68 | 57 | 0.84 |
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.