School Admission Appeals

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.