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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Timeseries of appeals number and percentage figures figures by primary and secondary school
Number and rate of primary admissions appeals heard and successful by region
Number and rates of secondary admissions appeals heard and successful by region
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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
National
Number of new admissions and number and percentage of appeals lodged, heard and successful by the governance of the school and school phase
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This document describes the data included in the ‘Schools admissions appeals in England: 2023 to 2024’ 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 2024 data collection can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-admission-appeals-data-collection-how-to-submit-data (opens in new tab).
The data includes returns via the APAD collection from 152 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.
No rounding or suppression has been applied to either the appeals or admissions data.
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
‘z’ Not applicable.
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