Contested schools in Trafford

These are the Trafford 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 Trafford

Secondary schools (14)

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

Contested secondary schools in Trafford, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Loreto Grammar School	160	258	1.61
Stretford Grammar School	170	263	1.55
Saint Ambrose College	149	223	1.50
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys	215	302	1.40
Urmston Grammar Academy	169	237	1.40
Sale Grammar School	197	265	1.35
Altrincham Grammar School for Girls	209	281	1.34
Wellington School	260	328	1.26
Sale High School	212	227	1.07
Ashton-on-Mersey School	269	275	1.02
Flixton Girls School	207	199	0.96
Stretford High School	196	176	0.90
North Cestrian School	175	112	0.64
Altrincham College	190	120	0.63

Primary schools (19)

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 Trafford, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Park Road Academy Primary School	30	56	1.87
Davyhulme Primary School	70	93	1.33
Moss Park Primary School	60	70	1.17
Bowdon CofE Primary School	90	103	1.14
Our Lady of the Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy	30	34	1.13
Park Road Sale Primary School	60	67	1.12
Highfield Primary School	30	32	1.07
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School	90	96	1.07
Tyntesfield Primary School	60	63	1.05
Springfield Primary School	89	93	1.04
Seymour Park Community Primary School	89	91	1.02
St Michael's CofE (Aided) Primary School	25	25	1
Heyes Lane Primary School	55	53	0.96
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy	26	25	0.96
Willows Primary School	36	34	0.94
Woodhouse Primary School	29	27	0.93
Flixton Primary School	55	49	0.89
Victoria Park Infant School	57	51	0.89
Navigation Primary School	41	36	0.88

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.