School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Glenmoor Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 50 families who named Glenmoor Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 190 and 232 put it first.

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

1.22

first choices for every place available

232 first preferences for 190 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Glenmoor Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Glenmoor Academy, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 24.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 163 of 669 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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

Glenmoor Academy turned first-choice families away in 9 of the last 12 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Glenmoor Academy, 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 0.89 per place 113 first choices 127 places 2016/17 0.9 per place 133 first choices 148 places 2017/18 0.86 per place 143 first choices 166 places 2018/19 1.07 per place 192 first choices 180 places 2019/20 1.51 per place 271 first choices 179 places 2020/21 1.62 per place 284 first choices 175 places 2021/22 1.15 per place 203 first choices 177 places 2022/23 1.39 per place 248 first choices 179 places 2023/24 1.28 per place 227 first choices 178 places 2024/25 1.02 per place 183 first choices 180 places 2025/26 1.12 per place 198 first choices 177 places 2026/27 1.22 per place 232 first choices 190 places
First preferences per place at Glenmoor Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 232 first preferences for 190 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Glenmoor Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 127 113 110 0.89
2016/17 148 133 133 0.9
2017/18 166 143 142 0.86
2018/19 180 192 157 1.07
2019/20 179 271 164 1.51
2020/21 175 284 163 1.62
2021/22 177 203 134 1.15
2022/23 179 248 164 1.39
2023/24 178 227 160 1.28
2024/25 180 183 153 1.02
2025/26 177 198 157 1.12
2026/27 190 232 182 1.22

Places offered

190

in 2026/27

Named first choice

232

568 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

78.4%

182 of 232

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 190 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

900

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

892

99.1% of capacity

Unfilled places

8

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

0

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 Glenmoor Academy 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 Glenmoor Academy reported 8 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.1% 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Glenmoor Academy from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 900 places 682 on roll 2014/15 900 places 596 on roll 2015/16 900 places 578 on roll 2016/17 900 places 632 on roll 2017/18 900 places 710 on roll 2018/19 900 places 783 on roll 2020/21 900 places 890 on roll 2021/22 900 places 892 on roll 2022/23 900 places 900 on roll 2023/24 900 places 888 on roll 2024/25 900 places 892 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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Postcode BH10 4EX. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 140008).

Other contested secondary schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

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.