School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 119 families who named Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 115 and 233 put it first.

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

2.03

first choices for every place available

233 first preferences for 115 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Blackburn with Darwen 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 Blackburn with Darwen, 9.8% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 58 of 594 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 Blackburn with Darwen.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Blackburn with Darwen 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

Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School 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 Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.6 1.3 1.9 2.5 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 1.43 per place 166 first choices 116 places 2016/17 1.5 per place 177 first choices 118 places 2017/18 1.46 per place 172 first choices 118 places 2018/19 1.77 per place 220 first choices 124 places 2019/20 2.06 per place 249 first choices 121 places 2020/21 2.02 per place 242 first choices 120 places 2021/22 2.08 per place 247 first choices 119 places 2022/23 1.9 per place 224 first choices 118 places 2023/24 2.13 per place 249 first choices 117 places 2024/25 2 per place 230 first choices 115 places 2025/26 1.96 per place 231 first choices 118 places 2026/27 2.03 per place 233 first choices 115 places
First preferences per place at Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 233 first preferences for 115 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 116 166 103 1.43
2016/17 118 177 100 1.5
2017/18 118 172 114 1.46
2018/19 124 220 119 1.77
2019/20 121 249 118 2.06
2020/21 120 242 120 2.02
2021/22 119 247 117 2.08
2022/23 118 224 115 1.9
2023/24 117 249 115 2.13
2024/25 115 230 115 2
2025/26 118 231 117 1.96
2026/27 115 233 114 2.03

Places offered

115

in 2026/27

Named first choice

233

357 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

48.9%

114 of 233

Offers to families outside the council

1%

1 of 115 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

600

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

630

105% of capacity

Over its capacity by

30

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

200

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 Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School 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 Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School 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, 2012/13 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 500 places 154 on roll 2013/14 700 places 253 on roll 2014/15 700 places 349 on roll 2015/16 700 places 469 on roll 2016/17 700 places 512 on roll 2017/18 800 places 561 on roll 2018/19 800 places 594 on roll 2020/21 800 places 629 on roll 2021/22 800 places 631 on roll 2022/23 800 places 682 on roll 2023/24 800 places 718 on roll 2024/25 800 places 736 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
Free schools
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Blackburn with Darwen

Postcode BB2 2LD. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138220).

Other contested secondary schools in Blackburn with Darwen

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.