School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Wembley High Technology College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 149 families who named Wembley High Technology College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 230 and 364 put it first.

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

1.58

first choices for every place available

364 first preferences for 230 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Wembley High Technology College

There is no published appeal success rate for Wembley High Technology College, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Brent 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 Brent, 4.5% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 17 of 382 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 Brent.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Brent 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

Wembley High Technology College 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 Wembley High Technology College, 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 2.33 per place 476 first choices 204 places 2016/17 2.5 per place 507 first choices 203 places 2017/18 2.51 per place 524 first choices 209 places 2018/19 2.52 per place 529 first choices 210 places 2019/20 2.67 per place 615 first choices 230 places 2020/21 2.68 per place 586 first choices 219 places 2021/22 2.82 per place 634 first choices 225 places 2022/23 2.37 per place 558 first choices 235 places 2023/24 2.4 per place 527 first choices 220 places 2024/25 2.32 per place 523 first choices 225 places 2025/26 1.82 per place 418 first choices 230 places 2026/27 1.58 per place 364 first choices 230 places
First preferences per place at Wembley High Technology College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 364 first preferences for 230 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Wembley High Technology College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 204 476 195 2.33
2016/17 203 507 194 2.5
2017/18 209 524 193 2.51
2018/19 210 529 195 2.52
2019/20 230 615 217 2.67
2020/21 219 586 206 2.68
2021/22 225 634 215 2.82
2022/23 235 558 229 2.37
2023/24 220 527 211 2.4
2024/25 225 523 216 2.32
2025/26 230 418 216 1.82
2026/27 230 364 215 1.58

Places offered

230

in 2026/27

Named first choice

364

1,125 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

59.1%

215 of 364

Offers to families outside the council

7%

16 of 230 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

1,374

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,276

92.9% of capacity

Unfilled places

98

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

280

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 Wembley High Technology College 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 Wembley High Technology College reported 98 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 92.9% 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, 2012/13 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Wembley High Technology College from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,150 2,300 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 1,375 places 1,345 on roll 2013/14 1,405 places 1,321 on roll 2014/15 2,215 places 1,324 on roll 2015/16 1,919 places 1,447 on roll 2016/17 1,647 places 1,351 on roll 2017/18 1,334 places 1,343 on roll 2018/19 1,334 places 1,371 on roll 2020/21 1,334 places 1,425 on roll 2021/22 1,334 places 1,405 on roll 2022/23 1,334 places 1,574 on roll 2023/24 1,556 places 1,547 on roll 2024/25 1,654 places 1,546 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
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Brent

Postcode HA0 3NT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138457).

Other contested secondary schools in Brent

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.