School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 192 families who named King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 150 and 337 put it first.

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

2.25

first choices for every place available

337 first preferences for 150 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls

There is no published appeal success rate for King Edward VI Camp Hill 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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham, 10.8% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 245 of 2,271 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 Birmingham.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Birmingham 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

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls 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 King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.8 1.5 2.3 3.0 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 2.55 per place 375 first choices 147 places 2016/17 2.57 per place 378 first choices 147 places 2017/18 2.14 per place 316 first choices 148 places 2018/19 2.35 per place 348 first choices 148 places 2019/20 2.44 per place 339 first choices 139 places 2020/21 2.21 per place 333 first choices 151 places 2021/22 1.91 per place 287 first choices 150 places 2022/23 2.09 per place 314 first choices 150 places 2023/24 2.16 per place 322 first choices 149 places 2024/25 1.99 per place 299 first choices 150 places 2025/26 2.06 per place 309 first choices 150 places 2026/27 2.25 per place 337 first choices 150 places
First preferences per place at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 337 first preferences for 150 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at King Edward VI Camp Hill 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
2015/16 147 375 146 2.55
2016/17 147 378 144 2.57
2017/18 148 316 147 2.14
2018/19 148 348 146 2.35
2019/20 139 339 138 2.44
2020/21 151 333 148 2.21
2021/22 150 287 150 1.91
2022/23 150 314 145 2.09
2023/24 149 322 146 2.16
2024/25 150 299 143 1.99
2025/26 150 309 139 2.06
2026/27 150 337 145 2.25

Places offered

150

in 2026/27

Named first choice

337

921 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

43%

145 of 337

Offers to families outside the council

2%

3 of 150 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

750

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

747

99.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

3

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

350

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 King Edward VI Camp Hill 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 King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls reported 3 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.6% 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 King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 896 places 866 on roll 2012/13 896 places 858 on roll 2013/14 896 places 866 on roll 2014/15 896 places 922 on roll 2015/16 896 places 963 on roll 2016/17 1,042 places 1,015 on roll 2017/18 1,006 places 1,056 on roll 2018/19 1,006 places 1,065 on roll 2020/21 1,100 places 1,100 on roll 2021/22 1,100 places 1,098 on roll 2022/23 1,100 places 1,097 on roll 2023/24 1,100 places 1,107 on roll 2024/25 1,100 places 1,112 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls has been the subject of 2 such determinations. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code in each of them.

Adjudicator determinations naming King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
12 December 2018 Arrangements did not comply ADA3353
12 June 2014 Arrangements did not comply ADA2611

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

What these figures do not tell you

About the school

Type
Academy converter
Admissions policy
Selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Birmingham

Postcode B14 7QJ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137044).

Other contested secondary schools in Birmingham

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.