Contested schools in Wolverhampton
These are the Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton
Secondary schools (11)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Royal School, Wolverhampton | 30 | 171 | 5.70 |
| Thomas Telford University Technical College | 149 | 349 | 2.34 |
| Wolverhampton Girls' High School | 193 | 334 | 1.73 |
| Coppice Performing Arts School | 175 | 234 | 1.34 |
| Highfields School | 271 | 346 | 1.28 |
| Heath Park | 196 | 246 | 1.26 |
| St Edmund's Catholic Academy | 192 | 209 | 1.09 |
| Ormiston SWB Academy | 225 | 240 | 1.07 |
| The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton | 147 | 146 | 0.99 |
| Moseley Park | 195 | 190 | 0.97 |
| Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy | 206 | 176 | 0.85 |
Primary schools (33)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Park Primary School | 30 | 46 | 1.53 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School | 30 | 41 | 1.37 |
| St Paul's Church of England Aided Primary School | 30 | 41 | 1.37 |
| The Royal School, Wolverhampton | 90 | 123 | 1.37 |
| Whitgreave Primary School | 60 | 79 | 1.32 |
| Bushbury Lane Academy | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Merridale Primary School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Christ Church (Church of England) Infant and Nursery School | 60 | 71 | 1.18 |
| St Luke's Church of England Aided Primary School | 60 | 71 | 1.18 |
| St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School | 60 | 70 | 1.17 |
| St Michael's CofE Primary Academy | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| East Park Academy | 90 | 101 | 1.12 |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy | 29 | 32 | 1.10 |
| St Stephen's Church of England Primary School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Elston Hall Primary School | 90 | 97 | 1.08 |
| Stow Heath Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Loxdale Primary School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Spring Vale Primary School | 60 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Edward the Elder Primary School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Oak Meadow Primary School | 60 | 60 | 1 |
| Palmers Cross Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| St Martin's Church of England Primary School | 20 | 20 | 1 |
| Wood End Primary School | 21 | 21 | 1 |
| Dunstall Hill Primary School | 59 | 58 | 0.98 |
| Eastfield Primary School | 45 | 44 | 0.98 |
| Parkfield Primary School | 29 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Castlecroft Primary School | 26 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Perry Hall Primary School | 57 | 55 | 0.96 |
| Bilston Church of England Primary School | 87 | 82 | 0.94 |
| Bushbury Hill Primary School | 25 | 23 | 0.92 |
| SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy | 30 | 27 | 0.90 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy | 60 | 53 | 0.88 |
| Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton | 59 | 50 | 0.85 |
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.