Academic year 2021/22

Admission appeals in England

Appeals submitted by parents against their child not getting an offer to a preferred primary or secondary school for the start of the academic year.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 18 August 2022

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• Admissions appeals by school type - 2016 to 2022

  National

  Number of new admissions and number and percentage of appeals lodged, heard and successful by the governance of the school and school phase

  • Number of rows: 175
  • Indicators:
    • Admission appeals lodged by parents
    • Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)
    • Admissions
  • Filters:
    • School phase
    • School type
  • Time period: 2016 to 2022

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• Admissions appeals by geography - 2016 to 2022

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of new admissions and number and percentage of appeals lodged, heard and successful by the local authority and school phase

  • Number of rows: 4,584
  • Indicators:
    • Admission appeals lodged by parents
    • Admission appeals lodged by parents (percentage)
    • Admissions
  • Filters:
    • School phase
  • Time period: 2016 to 2022

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘Schools admissions appeals in England: 2021 to 2022’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The methodology document for this subject should be referenced alongside this release. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality and how the data is produced.

A guide for the 2022 data collection can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-admission-appeals-data-collection-how-to-submit-data (opens in new tab).

Coverage

The data includes returns via the APAD collection from 150 local authorities (for voluntary controlled and community schools) and direct returns from voluntary aided, foundation and academy schools. The City of London local authority has only one school which is voluntary aided so are not required to make an APAD return.

The rate of appeals lodged and heard are calculated using a total number of new admissions based on the January school census.

File formats and conventions

Rounding and suppression

No rounding or suppression has been applied to either the appeals or admissions data.

Conventions

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.

‘z’         Not applicable.

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Admission appeals statistics team

Email: admissions.appeals@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Ann Claytor

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