School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 132 families who named Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 120 and 250 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.

2.08

first choices for every place available

250 first preferences for 120 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Tauheedul Islam Girls' 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 Girls' 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 Girls' 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 1.97 per place 232 first choices 118 places 2016/17 2.27 per place 272 first choices 120 places 2017/18 2.21 per place 261 first choices 118 places 2018/19 2.46 per place 300 first choices 122 places 2019/20 2.21 per place 270 first choices 122 places 2020/21 2.24 per place 273 first choices 122 places 2021/22 2.01 per place 243 first choices 121 places 2022/23 2.5 per place 302 first choices 121 places 2023/24 2.2 per place 260 first choices 118 places 2024/25 1.99 per place 241 first choices 121 places 2025/26 2.15 per place 264 first choices 123 places 2026/27 2.08 per place 250 first choices 120 places
First preferences per place at Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 250 first preferences for 120 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Tauheedul Islam Girls' 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
2015/16 118 232 115 1.97
2016/17 120 272 117 2.27
2017/18 118 261 117 2.21
2018/19 122 300 122 2.46
2019/20 122 270 122 2.21
2020/21 122 273 120 2.24
2021/22 121 243 120 2.01
2022/23 121 302 121 2.5
2023/24 118 260 118 2.2
2024/25 121 241 119 1.99
2025/26 123 264 122 2.15
2026/27 120 250 118 2.08

Places offered

120

in 2026/27

Named first choice

250

410 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

47.2%

118 of 250

Offers to families outside the council

4%

5 of 120 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

621

103.5% of capacity

Over its capacity by

21

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 Girls' 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 Girls' 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, 2014/15 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School from 2014/15 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2014/15 800 places 778 on roll 2015/16 800 places 787 on roll 2016/17 800 places 752 on roll 2017/18 800 places 763 on roll 2018/19 800 places 808 on roll 2020/21 800 places 847 on roll 2021/22 800 places 860 on roll 2022/23 800 places 884 on roll 2023/24 800 places 862 on roll 2024/25 800 places 851 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
Blackburn with Darwen

Postcode BB2 7AD. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 141565).

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.