School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Hasmonean High School for Boys?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 35 families who named Hasmonean High School for Boys as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 63 and 94 put it first.

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

1.49

first choices for every place available

94 first preferences for 63 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Hasmonean High School for Boys

There is no published appeal success rate for Hasmonean High School for Boys, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Barnet 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 Barnet, 15.1% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 61 of 405 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 Barnet.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Barnet 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

Hasmonean High School for Boys turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Hasmonean High School for Boys, 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 1.13 per place 190 first choices 168 places 2016/17 1.29 per place 215 first choices 167 places 2017/18 1.4 per place 205 first choices 146 places 2018/19 1.27 per place 210 first choices 165 places 2019/20 1.35 per place 202 first choices 150 places 2020/21 1.42 per place 128 first choices 90 places 2021/22 1.38 per place 117 first choices 85 places 2022/23 1.44 per place 135 first choices 94 places 2023/24 1.84 per place 138 first choices 75 places 2024/25 1.45 per place 145 first choices 100 places 2025/26 1.27 per place 138 first choices 109 places 2026/27 1.49 per place 94 first choices 63 places
First preferences per place at Hasmonean High School for Boys. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 94 first preferences for 63 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Hasmonean High School for Boys, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 168 190 150 1.13
2016/17 167 215 153 1.29
2017/18 146 205 126 1.4
2018/19 165 210 154 1.27
2019/20 150 202 133 1.35
2020/21 90 128 87 1.42
2021/22 85 117 82 1.38
2022/23 94 135 92 1.44
2023/24 75 138 74 1.84
2024/25 100 145 99 1.45
2025/26 109 138 107 1.27
2026/27 63 94 59 1.49

Places offered

63

in 2026/27

Named first choice

94

125 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

62.8%

59 of 94

Offers to families outside the council

6%

4 of 63 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

839

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

609

72.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

230

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

150

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 Hasmonean High School for Boys 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 Hasmonean High School for Boys reported 230 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 72.6% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Hasmonean High School for Boys from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,499 places 1,021 on roll 2012/13 1,499 places 1,010 on roll 2013/14 1,499 places 1,041 on roll 2014/15 1,499 places 1,059 on roll 2015/16 1,499 places 1,090 on roll 2016/17 1,499 places 1,132 on roll 2017/18 1,499 places 1,139 on roll 2018/19 747 places 615 on roll 2020/21 747 places 638 on roll 2021/22 747 places 684 on roll 2022/23 747 places 723 on roll 2023/24 747 places 748 on roll 2024/25 989 places 769 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
Academy converter
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Barnet

Postcode NW4 1NA. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137539).

Other contested secondary schools in Barnet

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.