Contested schools in Worcestershire
These are the Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire
Secondary schools (14)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Trinity School | 28 | 39 | 1.39 |
| Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College | 200 | 256 | 1.28 |
| The Bewdley School | 174 | 216 | 1.24 |
| Hanley Castle High School | 178 | 219 | 1.23 |
| The Chantry School | 169 | 199 | 1.18 |
| Wolverley CofE Secondary School | 167 | 190 | 1.14 |
| Tudor Grange Academy Worcester | 202 | 208 | 1.03 |
| Bishop Perowne CofE College | 232 | 236 | 1.02 |
| Nunnery Wood High School | 293 | 299 | 1.02 |
| Woodrush High School | 179 | 180 | 1.01 |
| Hagley Catholic High School | 185 | 180 | 0.97 |
| Pershore High School | 87 | 82 | 0.94 |
| The Chase | 231 | 216 | 0.94 |
| Haybridge High School and Sixth Form | 205 | 185 | 0.90 |
Primary schools (66)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwell First School | 29 | 59 | 2.03 |
| Hindlip CofE First School | 19 | 31 | 1.63 |
| Suckley Primary School | 14 | 22 | 1.57 |
| Malvern Wyche CofE Primary School | 20 | 27 | 1.35 |
| Astwood Bank Primary School | 57 | 74 | 1.30 |
| Beaconside Primary and Nursery School | 30 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Pitmaston Primary School | 89 | 116 | 1.30 |
| St Catherine's CofE (VC) Primary School | 60 | 78 | 1.30 |
| Hanley Swan St Gabriel's with St Mary's CofE Primary School | 17 | 22 | 1.29 |
| Tardebigge CofE First School | 30 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Overbury CofE First School | 15 | 18 | — |
| Romsley St Kenelm's CofE Primary School | 28 | 33 | 1.18 |
| Lickey End First School | 30 | 35 | 1.17 |
| St Clement's CofE Primary | 29 | 34 | 1.17 |
| Chaddesley Corbett Endowed Primary School | 29 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Clent Parochial Primary School | 15 | 17 | — |
| Cropthorne-with-Charlton CofE First School | 15 | 17 | — |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | 15 | 17 | — |
| Broadheath CofE Primary School | 20 | 22 | 1.10 |
| Hanbury CofE First School | 30 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Sutton Park Primary School | 29 | 32 | 1.10 |
| Wolverley Sebright Primary Academy | 29 | 32 | 1.10 |
| Bengeworth CE Academy | 89 | 97 | 1.09 |
| Coppice Primary School | 89 | 97 | 1.09 |
| Belbroughton CofE Primary School | 25 | 27 | 1.08 |
| Grimley and Holt CofE Primary School | 12 | 13 | — |
| Bayton CofE Primary School | 15 | 16 | — |
| Claines CofE Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Kempsey Primary School | 59 | 63 | 1.07 |
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Tenacres First School | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Whittington CofE Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Martley CofE Primary School | 22 | 23 | 1.05 |
| Sedgeberrow CofE First School | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
| St George's CofE First School and Nursery | 29 | 30 | 1.03 |
| Chawson First School | 59 | 60 | 1.02 |
| Offmore Primary School | 44 | 45 | 1.02 |
| Tudor Grange Primary Academy Perdiswell | 58 | 59 | 1.02 |
| Crowle CofE Primary School | 14 | 14 | — |
| Flyford Flavell Primary School | 15 | 15 | — |
| Harvington CofE First School | 23 | 23 | 1 |
| Himbleton CofE Primary School and Nursery | 11 | 11 | — |
| St Anne's CofE VC Primary School | 20 | 20 | 1 |
| Stoke Prior First School | 25 | 25 | 1 |
| The Lyppard Grange Primary School | 52 | 51 | 0.98 |
| Abbey Park Primary School | 26 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Cookley Sebright Primary School | 28 | 27 | 0.96 |
| Hagley Primary School | 89 | 85 | 0.96 |
| Holyoakes Field First School | 51 | 49 | 0.96 |
| Malvern Parish CofE Primary School | 28 | 27 | 0.96 |
| North Worcester Primary School | 53 | 51 | 0.96 |
| Abberley Parochial VC Primary School | 15 | 14 | — |
| Heronswood Primary School | 58 | 54 | 0.93 |
| St Stephen's CofE First School | 28 | 26 | 0.93 |
| Elmley Castle CofE First School | 13 | 12 | — |
| St Luke's CofE First School | 23 | 21 | 0.91 |
| Bredon Hancock's Endowed CofE First School | 21 | 19 | — |
| Charford First School | 73 | 66 | 0.90 |
| Fairfield First School | 29 | 26 | 0.90 |
| St Peter's Droitwich CofE Academy | 90 | 81 | 0.90 |
| Honeybourne Primary Academy | 24 | 21 | 0.88 |
| Finstall First School | 55 | 48 | 0.87 |
| Crown Meadow First School & Nursery | 58 | 50 | 0.86 |
| Great Witley CofE Primary School | 22 | 19 | — |
| Inkberrow Primary School | 12 | 10 | — |
| Meadow Green Primary School | 24 | 20 | 0.83 |
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.