Contested schools in Telford and Wrekin

These are the Telford and Wrekin 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 Telford and Wrekin

Secondary schools (8)

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

Contested secondary schools in Telford and Wrekin, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Madeley Academy	172	411	2.39
Haberdashers' Adams	135	285	2.11
Newport Girls' High School Academy	119	227	1.91
Holy Trinity Academy	203	281	1.38
Hadley Learning Community - Secondary Phase	233	299	1.28
Charlton School	234	230	0.98
Ercall Wood Academy	200	171	0.85
Haberdashers' Abraham Darby	173	110	0.64

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.

Contested primary schools in Telford and Wrekin, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Redhill Primary Academy	60	105	1.75
Allscott Meads Primary Academy	20	33	1.65
Lightmoor Village Primary School	30	45	1.50
Newdale Primary School & Nursery	59	88	1.49
Moorfield Primary School	30	42	1.40
St George's Church of England Primary School	73	88	1.21
Lilleshall Primary School	30	36	1.20
High Ercall Primary School	20	23	1.15
Crudgington Primary School	20	22	1.10
Lawley Village Academy	60	65	1.08
Grange Park Primary School	60	64	1.07
Aqueduct Primary Academy	30	31	1.03
Wrekin View Primary School	60	62	1.03
Thomas Telford Primary Free School	60	61	1.02
John Fletcher of Madeley Primary School	23	23	1
Windmill Primary School	45	44	0.98
John Randall Primary School	27	26	0.96
Hadley Learning Community - Primary Phase	85	77	0.91
Ladygrove Primary School	60	52	0.87
Apley Wood Primary Academy	59	51	0.86

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.