Contested schools in Wirral

These are the Wirral 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 Wirral

Secondary schools (13)

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

Contested secondary schools in Wirral, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Birkenhead High School Academy	116	163	1.41
Co-op Academy Bebington	177	210	1.19
Wirral Grammar School for Boys	167	190	1.14
Wirral Grammar School for Girls	178	199	1.12
Calday Grange Grammar School	202	222	1.10
Upton Hall School FCJ	156	166	1.06
Weatherhead High School	259	271	1.05
Hilbre High School	178	181	1.02
St Anselm's College	157	155	0.99
Woodchurch High School	253	247	0.98
Pensby High School	173	165	0.95
Prenton High School for Girls	147	137	0.93
The Oldershaw School	102	82	0.80

Primary schools (32)

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 Wirral, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Brookdale Primary School	30	49	1.63
Gayton Primary School	30	44	1.47
Eastway Primary School	30	39	1.30
Thingwall Primary School	30	37	1.23
Thornton Hough Primary School	27	33	1.22
Birkenhead High School Academy	56	67	1.20
Our Lady of Pity Catholic Primary and Nursery School	60	71	1.18
Mersey Park Primary School	60	70	1.17
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School	30	33	1.10
Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School	30	33	1.10
Poulton Lancelyn Primary School	61	67	1.10
Bidston Avenue Primary School	60	65	1.08
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy	30	32	1.07
Co-op Academy Portland	30	31	1.03
Heswall Primary School	30	31	1.03
Irby Primary School	30	31	1.03
Church Drive Primary School	45	46	1.02
Liscard Primary School	90	89	0.99
St George's Primary School	117	116	0.99
Great Meols Primary School	49	47	0.96
St John's Catholic Infant School	49	47	0.96
Fender Primary School	44	42	0.95
Moreton Christ Church CofE Primary School	60	57	0.95
Riverside Primary School	22	21	0.95
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead	25	23	0.92
Raeburn Primary School	55	50	0.91
St Anne's Catholic Primary School	23	21	0.91
Bedford Drive Primary School	40	36	0.90
Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School	41	37	0.90
Prenton Primary School	60	54	0.90
Woodlands Primary School	36	32	0.89
Overchurch Infant School	89	72	0.81

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.