Academic year 2019/20

Admission appeals in England

Data guidance

Published 20 August 2020

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

Admissions appeals - by geography - 2016 to 2020

• Filename: admissionsappeals_la.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2016 to 2020

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
admissions	Admissions
appeals_heard_number	Appeals heard by an appeals panel
appeals_heard_percentage	Appeals heard by an appeals panel (percentage)
appeals_lodged_number	Admission appeals lodged by parents
appeals_lodged_percentage	Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)
school_phase	School phase - Primary, primary (infant classes), secondary, total
successful_appeals_number	Successful appeals
successful_appeals_percentage	Successful appeals (percentage)

Admissions appeals - by school type - 2016 to 2020

• Filename: admissionsappeals_schooltype.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016 to 2020

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
admissions	Admissions
appeals_heard_number	Appeals heard by an appeals panel
appeals_heard_percentage	Appeals heard by an appeals panel (percentage)
appeals_lodged_number	Admission appeals lodged by parents
appeals_lodged_percentage	Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)
school_phase	School phase - Primary, primary (infant classes), secondary, total
school_type	School type - Community and voluntary controlled, voluntary aided, foundation, academy, total
successful_appeals_number	Successful appeals
successful_appeals_percentage	Successful appeals (percentage)