School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere?

In 2026/27, Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere offered 165 places and 104 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.63

first choices for every place available

104 first preferences for 165 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere

There is no published appeal success rate for Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Bexley 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 Bexley, 12.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 55 of 449 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 Bexley.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Bexley 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

Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere turned first-choice families away in 7 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 6 of those years. In the other 1 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 Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere, 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 0.55 per place 86 first choices 155 places 2016/17 0.59 per place 98 first choices 166 places 2017/18 0.66 per place 115 first choices 173 places 2018/19 0.74 per place 133 first choices 179 places 2019/20 1.09 per place 187 first choices 171 places 2020/21 1.16 per place 194 first choices 167 places 2021/22 1.01 per place 181 first choices 180 places 2022/23 1.11 per place 198 first choices 178 places 2023/24 1.34 per place 220 first choices 164 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 179 first choices 168 places 2025/26 0.8 per place 132 first choices 166 places 2026/27 0.63 per place 104 first choices 165 places
First preferences per place at Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 104 first preferences for 165 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 155 86 86 0.55
2016/17 166 98 98 0.59
2017/18 173 115 115 0.66
2018/19 179 133 117 0.74
2019/20 171 187 139 1.09
2020/21 167 194 154 1.16
2021/22 180 181 133 1.01
2022/23 178 198 157 1.11
2023/24 164 220 139 1.34
2024/25 168 179 140 1.07
2025/26 166 132 132 0.8
2026/27 165 104 104 0.63

Places offered

165

in 2026/27

Named first choice

104

380 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

104 of 104

Offers to families outside the council

10%

13 of 134 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

860

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

867

100.8% of capacity

Over its capacity by

7

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

240

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 Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere 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 Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 900 places 1,045 on roll 2011/12 1,180 places 1,040 on roll 2012/13 1,180 places 1,088 on roll 2013/14 1,180 places 1,115 on roll 2014/15 1,100 places 1,069 on roll 2015/16 1,100 places 1,052 on roll 2016/17 1,100 places 1,047 on roll 2017/18 1,100 places 1,031 on roll 2018/19 1,100 places 1,037 on roll 2020/21 1,100 places 1,079 on roll 2021/22 1,100 places 1,076 on roll 2022/23 1,100 places 1,061 on roll 2023/24 1,100 places 1,071 on roll 2024/25 1,100 places 1,046 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
Bexley

Postcode DA17 6HT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136538).

Other contested secondary schools in Bexley

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.