Parents criticised Fallibroome High School’s admissions criteria at the consultation meeting and questioned why it had not been as involved in the consultation process.

Paul and Louise Papadopoulos have a son, Daniel, in year nine at Tytherington High School.

Speaking after the meeting, they said: "Children are being moved from primary schools to the feeder primary schools so they can go to Fallibroome and children who live up the road from the high school aren’t getting in. It’s not right."

During the meeting, head of services for children and families Lorraine Butcher said that the admissions processes across the town is being investigated.

She said: "We want to create a level playing field across the town. The admissions world is very complex. We have committed to looking at it, but it is a very prescribed process."

Fallibroome High School gives priority to pupils at its ‘feeder’ primary schools, which are Bollinbrook, Mottram, Nether Alderley, Prestbury, Upton Priory and Whirley.

A Cheshire East spokeswoman said: "The use of named feeder schools within the oversubscription criteria is lawful provided that the schools named are selected on an objective and consistent basis.

"An extraordinary meeting of the Admissions Forum has been arranged for July 21, in order that full details of the arrangements for Macclesfield high schools are reviewed.

"In the event that it is agreed that there are unfair or unlawful arrangements, the LA and Forum will conclude that an objection must be submitted to the Schools Adjudicator."