Contested schools in West Berkshire
These are the West Berkshire 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 West Berkshire
Secondary schools (6)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Downs School | 204 | 249 | 1.22 |
| Denefield School | 203 | 217 | 1.07 |
| The Willink School | 201 | 214 | 1.06 |
| St Bartholomew's School | 265 | 275 | 1.04 |
| Trinity School | 209 | 202 | 0.97 |
| Little Heath School | 260 | 219 | 0.84 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fir Tree Primary School and Nursery | 28 | 50 | 1.79 |
| Birch Copse Primary School | 60 | 99 | 1.65 |
| Downsway Primary School | 30 | 47 | 1.57 |
| Robert Sandilands Primary School and Nursery | 29 | 43 | 1.48 |
| Falkland Primary School | 60 | 79 | 1.32 |
| Parsons Down Infant School | 29 | 38 | 1.31 |
| Burghfield St Mary's C.E. Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Highwood Copse Primary School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary School | 29 | 35 | 1.21 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Englefield C.E. Primary School | 16 | 18 | — |
| The Ilsleys Primary School | 8 | 9 | — |
| Shaw-cum-Donnington C.E. Primary School | 14 | 15 | — |
| St Finian's Catholic Primary School | 29 | 30 | 1.03 |
| Brightwalton C.E. Aided Primary School | 8 | 8 | — |
| Woolhampton C.E. Primary School | 6 | 6 | — |
| Speenhamland School | 44 | 43 | 0.98 |
| Calcot Infant School and Nursery | 39 | 37 | 0.95 |
| Yattendon C.E. Primary School | 14 | 12 | — |
| The Winchcombe School | 57 | 38 | 0.67 |
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.