Contested schools in Warrington
These are the Warrington 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 Warrington
Secondary schools (6)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| King's Leadership Academy Warrington | 165 | 226 | 1.37 |
| St Gregory's Catholic High School | 240 | 314 | 1.31 |
| Lymm High School | 309 | 363 | 1.17 |
| Beamont Collegiate Academy | 180 | 208 | 1.16 |
| Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School | 175 | 199 | 1.14 |
| Culcheth High School | 198 | 190 | 0.96 |
Primary schools (28)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grappenhall Heys Community Primary School | 60 | 101 | 1.68 |
| Locking Stumps Community Primary School | 30 | 45 | 1.50 |
| Oughtrington Primary School | 30 | 45 | 1.50 |
| Bruche Academy | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Evelyn Street Primary Academy and Nursery | 44 | 54 | 1.23 |
| Alderman Bolton Primary School | 29 | 34 | 1.17 |
| St Thomas' CofE Primary School | 29 | 34 | 1.17 |
| Glazebury Church of England Primary School | 14 | 16 | — |
| Woolston Community Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Cinnamon Brow Church of England Primary School | 45 | 50 | 1.11 |
| Barrow Hall Community Primary School | 90 | 99 | 1.10 |
| Penketh Primary School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Grappenhall St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Appleton Thorn Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Beamont Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Croft Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Twiss Green Community Primary School | 29 | 31 | 1.07 |
| Chapelford Village Primary School | 89 | 91 | 1.02 |
| St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | 56 | 56 | 1 |
| Cherry Tree School | 30 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Ravenbank Primary School | 30 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Burtonwood Community Primary School | 28 | 27 | 0.96 |
| Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery School | 24 | 23 | 0.96 |
| Penketh South Community Primary School | 21 | 20 | 0.95 |
| Park Road Community Primary School | 27 | 25 | 0.93 |
| Culcheth Community Primary School | 18 | 16 | — |
| Great Sankey Primary School | 45 | 40 | 0.89 |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | 25 | 21 | 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.