Contested schools in York

These are the York 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 York

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in York, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
All Saints Catholic School York	174	229	1.32
Huntington School	227	266	1.17
Fulford School	286	302	1.06
Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy	294	305	1.04
York High School	125	119	0.95

Primary schools (15)

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 York, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Lord Deramore's Primary School	27	66	2.44
St Lawrence's Church of England Primary School	14	18	—
St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School	43	52	1.21
Acomb Primary School	45	52	1.16
Rufforth Primary School	15	17	—
Ralph Butterfield Primary School	44	49	1.11
Dringhouses Primary School	45	49	1.09
Clifton With Rawcliffe Primary School	89	95	1.07
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy	27	29	1.07
Woodthorpe Primary School	60	64	1.07
Heworth Church of England Primary School	13	13	—
Knavesmire Primary School	60	60	1
Wheldrake with Thorganby Church of England Primary School	24	23	0.96
St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School	15	14	—
Hempland Primary School	60	55	0.92

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.