School Admission Appeals

Contested schools in Westmorland and Furness

These are the Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Westmorland and Furness, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Chetwynde School 30 64 2.13
John Ruskin School 46 52 1.13
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith 158 175 1.11
Kirkbie Kendal School 188 199 1.06
Queen Elizabeth School 248 258 1.04
Furness Academy 258 263 1.02
Samuel King's School 24 24 1
Cartmel Priory CofE School 64 63 0.98
Ulverston Victoria High School 160 157 0.98

Primary schools (21)

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 Westmorland and Furness, 2026/27
School Places First choices Per place
Penny Bridge CofE School 15 23 1.53
Yarlside Academy 29 39 1.34
Dane Ghyll Community Primary School and Nursery 28 37 1.32
Grasmere CofE Primary School 10 13 —
Pennington CofE School 30 39 1.30
Plumpton School 15 18 —
Calthwaite CofE School 12 14 —
Allithwaite CofE Primary School 14 16 —
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ulverston 19 21 1.11
Askam Village School 29 31 1.07
Chetwynde School 30 32 1.07
St Mary's CofE Primary School 29 31 1.07
Crosthwaite CofE School 9 9 —
Greystoke Primary School 5 5 —
Sir John Barrow School 30 30 1
St Columba's School 21 21 1
St Thomas's CofE Primary School 23 23 1
Langwathby CofE Primary School 27 26 0.96
Newbarns Primary and Nursery School 48 44 0.92
Parkside Academy 27 24 0.89
Holy Family Catholic Primary School 29 25 0.86

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.