Reporting year 2024

Admission appeals in England

Data guidance

Published 15 August 2024

Description

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 a new tab) and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data (opens in a 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 a new tab).

Coverage

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.

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.

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 2024

• Filename: admissionsappeals_la.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2016 to 2024
• Content:
  Number of new admissions and number and percentage of appeals lodged, heard and successful by the local authority and school phase

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 2024

• Filename: admissionsappeals_schooltype.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016 to 2024
• Content:
  Number of new admissions and number and percentage of appeals lodged, heard and successful by the governance of the school and school phase

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)