School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at All Saints Catholic School and Technology College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 81 families who named All Saints Catholic School and Technology College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 240 and 287 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Barking and Dagenham actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 12 years of official figures.

1.20

first choices for every place available

287 first preferences for 240 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at All Saints Catholic School and Technology College

There is no published appeal success rate for All Saints Catholic School and Technology College, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Barking and Dagenham as a whole and cover every state-funded school in the authority. Anyone quoting you odds for a named school is making them up.

Across Barking and Dagenham, 10.6% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 28 of 265 appeals heard in 2024–2026. The England figure is 20.1%.

A panel is not deciding whether you want the school. It decides whether the admission arrangements were lawful and correctly applied, and then whether the harm to your child of not being admitted outweighs the harm to the school of going over its published number. Cases built on preference rather than on those two questions are the ones that fail.

See the full appeal figures for Barking and Dagenham.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Barking and Dagenham ones. Whichever school you are appealing for, the panel works through the same two stages and is required to ignore the same things.

How contested this school has been

All Saints Catholic School and Technology College turned first-choice families away in 9 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 4 of those years. In the other 5 it had places on paper and still turned first-choice families away — which happens where families who may not meet a school's criteria rank it below a safer choice — common at selective, faith and single-sex schools, and it means the first-preference count understates how wanted the school is.

First preferences per place at All Saints Catholic School and Technology College, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 0.88 per place 211 first choices 240 places 2016/17 1.02 per place 243 first choices 238 places 2017/18 0.88 per place 209 first choices 238 places 2018/19 1.11 per place 263 first choices 236 places 2019/20 1.23 per place 294 first choices 240 places 2020/21 0.83 per place 200 first choices 240 places 2021/22 0.96 per place 231 first choices 240 places 2022/23 0.91 per place 221 first choices 242 places 2023/24 0.97 per place 228 first choices 236 places 2024/25 0.83 per place 171 first choices 205 places 2025/26 0.92 per place 218 first choices 237 places 2026/27 1.2 per place 287 first choices 240 places
First preferences per place at All Saints Catholic School and Technology College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 287 first preferences for 240 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at All Saints Catholic School and Technology College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 240 211 188 0.88
2016/17 238 243 199 1.02
2017/18 238 209 179 0.88
2018/19 236 263 192 1.11
2019/20 240 294 211 1.23
2020/21 240 200 177 0.83
2021/22 240 231 203 0.96
2022/23 242 221 203 0.91
2023/24 236 228 205 0.97
2024/25 205 171 170 0.83
2025/26 237 218 214 0.92
2026/27 240 287 206 1.2

Places offered

240

in 2026/27

Named first choice

287

697 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

71.8%

206 of 287

Offers to families outside the council

19%

45 of 234 offers

Was the school full?

This is the question a panel spends most of its time on. At the second stage of an appeal it weighs the harm to the school of taking an extra child against the harm to your child of being refused — and how much room the school has is the heart of that. The admission authority has to show harm over and above the fact that its published number has been reached, so it is fair to ask what the specific harm is — how the second stage actually works.

Places, Years 7 to 11

1,198

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,174

98% of capacity

Unfilled places

24

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

446

excluded from the figures above

Read this before you use these numbers

These are whole-school figures across Years 7 to 11, not the year group you are appealing for. A school can hold spare places in its upper years while the year you want is genuinely full, and the panel will have the year-group numbers in front of it. So this does not show that All Saints Catholic School and Technology College has room for your child.

They are also the school's own reported capacity, as at 1 May 2025 — a year behind the application figures further up this page, and a description rather than a finding.

On the published figures All Saints Catholic School and Technology College reported 24 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 98% of capacity. That is worth asking about — but ask it as a question, not an assertion. A panel will want the figure for the year group in question, and the school may have a good answer about staffing, rooms or timetabling.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at All Saints Catholic School and Technology College from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 850 1,700 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,205 places 1,146 on roll 2010/11 1,078 places 1,110 on roll 2011/12 1,078 places 1,108 on roll 2012/13 1,078 places 1,101 on roll 2013/14 1,078 places 1,138 on roll 2014/15 1,644 places 1,159 on roll 2015/16 1,644 places 1,235 on roll 2016/17 1,644 places 1,276 on roll 2017/18 1,644 places 1,320 on roll 2018/19 1,644 places 1,403 on roll 2020/21 1,644 places 1,440 on roll 2021/22 1,644 places 1,471 on roll 2022/23 1,644 places 1,446 on roll 2023/24 1,644 places 1,380 on roll 2024/25 1,644 places 1,352 on roll
Whole-school figures including any sixth form, as at 1 May each year. 2019/20 is missing because the 2020 School Capacity survey was cancelled.

Department for Education, School capacity, school-level file, 2024/25. Published under the Open Government Licence.

What these figures do not tell you

About the school

Type
Voluntary aided school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Barking and Dagenham

Postcode RM8 1JT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 101247).

Other contested secondary schools in Barking and Dagenham

Applications and offers: Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers, school-level file, 2026/27. Appeal figures: Admission appeals in England. Both under the Open Government Licence.