School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Hasmonean High School for Girls?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 6 families who named Hasmonean High School for Girls as their first choice did not get a place: 83 put it first and 77 of them were offered one.

Below: what an appeal in Barnet actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 7 years of official figures.

6

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

83 first preferences for 85 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Hasmonean High School for Girls

There is no published appeal success rate for Hasmonean High School for Girls, 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 Girls turned first-choice families away in 4 of the last 7 years. 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 Girls, 2020/21 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 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 25/26 26/27 2020/21 1.24 per place 93 first choices 75 places 2021/22 1.15 per place 86 first choices 75 places 2022/23 0.89 per place 67 first choices 75 places 2023/24 1.23 per place 92 first choices 75 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 91 first choices 85 places 2025/26 0.93 per place 67 first choices 72 places 2026/27 0.98 per place 83 first choices 85 places
First preferences per place at Hasmonean High School for Girls. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 83 first preferences for 85 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Hasmonean High School for Girls, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2020/21 75 93 71 1.24
2021/22 75 86 63 1.15
2022/23 75 67 60 0.89
2023/24 75 92 70 1.23
2024/25 85 91 84 1.07
2025/26 72 67 65 0.93
2026/27 85 83 77 0.98

Places offered

85

in 2026/27

Named first choice

83

137 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

92.8%

77 of 83

Offers to families outside the council

7%

6 of 85 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

400

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

429

107.2% of capacity

Over its capacity by

29

reported as full or beyond

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 Girls 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 Girls was at or beyond its stated capacity across Years 7 to 11. A school in that position has a straightforward case that another admission would cause it difficulty, and an appeal here has to succeed on the strength of your child's own circumstances rather than on spare room.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2018/19 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Hasmonean High School for Girls from 2018/19 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 18/19 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 2018/19 747 places 546 on roll 2020/21 747 places 575 on roll 2021/22 747 places 592 on roll 2022/23 747 places 580 on roll 2023/24 747 places 586 on roll 2024/25 550 places 587 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 NW7 2EU. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 147238).

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.