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1. Step 1

   • Publication: Admission appeals in England

2. Step 2

   • Data set: Admissions appeals - by school type - 2016 to 2021

3. Step 3

   • National:
     • England

4. Step 4

   • Time period: 2016 to 2021

5. Step 5

   • Indicators:
     • Admission appeals lodged by parents
     • Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)
     • Admissions
     • Appeals heard by an appeals panel
     • Appeals heard by an appeals panel (percentage)
   • School phase:
     • Total
     • Primary
     • Secondary
   • School type:
     • Total

6. Step 6 Explore data

   This data is not from the latest release

   View latest data: Academic year 2022/23

   'Admissions appeals - by school type - 2016 to 2021' for Primary and Secondary in England between 2016 and 2021

   		2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
   Primary	Admissions	865,069	841,532	820,620	815,051	812,953	802,673
   	Admission appeals lodged by parents	33,270	28,451	24,807	20,947	19,032	16,781
   	Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)	3.8	3.4	3.0	2.6	2.3	2.1
   	Appeals heard by an appeals panel	22,820	19,336	16,643	14,086	12,465	11,239
   	Appeals heard by an appeals panel (percentage)	2.6	2.3	2.0	1.7	1.5	1.4
   	Successful appeals	4,152	3,494	3,186	2,779	2,310	1,823
   	Successful appeals (percentage)	18.2	18.1	19.1	19.7	18.5	16.2
   Secondary	Admissions	640,705	674,790	680,200	695,861	724,747	720,280
   	Admission appeals lodged by parents	29,031	32,435	35,911	38,473	43,299	36,743
   	Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)	4.5	4.8	5.3	5.5	6.0	5.1
   	Appeals heard by an appeals panel	22,964	25,290	27,877	31,769	35,648	29,871
   	Appeals heard by an appeals panel (percentage)	3.6	3.7	4.1	4.6	4.9	4.1
   	Successful appeals	6,040	6,220	6,529	7,398	7,901	6,000
   	Successful appeals (percentage)	26.3	24.6	23.4	23.3	22.2	20.1
   Total	Admissions	1,505,774	1,516,322	1,500,820	1,510,912	1,537,700	1,522,953
   	Admission appeals lodged by parents	62,301	60,886	60,718	59,420	62,331	53,524
   	Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)	4.1	4.0	4.0	3.9	4.1	3.5
   	Appeals heard by an appeals panel	45,784	44,626	44,520	45,855	48,113	41,110
   	Appeals heard by an appeals panel (percentage)	3.0	2.9	3.0	3.0	3.1	2.7
   	Successful appeals	10,192	9,714	9,715	10,177	10,211	7,823
   	Successful appeals (percentage)	22.3	21.8	21.8	22.2	21.2	19.0

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   • Publication: Admission appeals in England, Academic year 2022/23

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