School Admission Appeals

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.

Contested secondary schools in Warrington, 2026/27
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.

Contested primary schools in Warrington, 2026/27
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.