Contested schools in West Northamptonshire
These are the West Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire
Secondary schools (11)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wootton Park School | 112 | 301 | 2.69 |
| Northampton School for Boys | 218 | 571 | 2.62 |
| Northampton Academy | 283 | 459 | 1.62 |
| Northampton School | 209 | 309 | 1.48 |
| Chenderit School | 166 | 229 | 1.38 |
| The Duston School | 262 | 313 | 1.19 |
| Northampton School for Girls | 262 | 262 | 1 |
| Sponne School | 220 | 214 | 0.97 |
| The Parker E-ACT Academy | 186 | 172 | 0.92 |
| Caroline Chisholm School | 210 | 156 | 0.74 |
| Moulton School and Science College | 250 | 162 | 0.65 |
Primary schools (45)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overstone Gate Primary School | 28 | 66 | 2.36 |
| Wootton Park School | 60 | 94 | 1.57 |
| Bracken Leas Primary School | 59 | 82 | 1.39 |
| John Hellins Primary School | 29 | 39 | 1.34 |
| East Haddon Church of England Primary School | 12 | 15 | — |
| Silverstone Church of England Primary School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Monksmoor Park Church of England Primary School | 28 | 34 | 1.21 |
| Clipston Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary School | 15 | 18 | — |
| Culworth Church of England Primary Academy | 15 | 18 | — |
| Buckton Fields Primary School | 59 | 69 | 1.17 |
| Pineham Barns Primary School | 58 | 68 | 1.17 |
| Pattishall Church of England Primary School | 29 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Queen Eleanor Primary Academy | 29 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Chipping Warden Primary Academy | 15 | 17 | — |
| Staverton Church of England Voluntary Primary School | 15 | 17 | — |
| Hartwell Primary School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Preston Hedges Primary School | 60 | 66 | 1.10 |
| Duston Eldean Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Braunston Church of England Primary School | 29 | 31 | 1.07 |
| The Radstone Primary School | 59 | 63 | 1.07 |
| Helmdon Primary School | 18 | 19 | — |
| Simon de Senlis Primary School | 58 | 61 | 1.05 |
| The Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School | 29 | 30 | 1.03 |
| St James Church of England Primary School | 59 | 60 | 1.02 |
| Badby School | 17 | 17 | — |
| Green Oaks Primary Academy | 15 | 15 | — |
| Kingsley Primary School | 46 | 46 | 1 |
| Lyncrest Primary School | 21 | 21 | 1 |
| Maidwell Primary School | 7 | 7 | — |
| Welford Sibbertoft and Sulby Endowed School | 9 | 9 | — |
| Weston Favell CofE Primary School | 60 | 60 | 1 |
| Yardley Hastings Primary School | 10 | 10 | — |
| All Saints CofE VA Primary School | 51 | 50 | 0.98 |
| Castle Academy | 54 | 53 | 0.98 |
| Headlands Primary School | 43 | 42 | 0.98 |
| Overstone Primary School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Falconer's Hill Infant School | 51 | 49 | 0.96 |
| Abington Vale Primary School | 20 | 19 | — |
| Barry Primary School | 60 | 56 | 0.93 |
| Boughton Primary School | 28 | 26 | 0.93 |
| Greatworth Primary School | 15 | 14 | — |
| Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary School | 59 | 54 | 0.92 |
| Syresham St James CofE Primary School and Nursery | 10 | 9 | — |
| Newbottle and Charlton Church of England Primary School | 11 | 9 | — |
| The Bramptons Primary School | 13 | 10 | — |
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.