School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Bridge Learning Campus?

In 2026/27, Bridge Learning Campus offered 83 places and 78 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.94

first choices for every place available

78 first preferences for 83 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Bridge Learning Campus

There is no published appeal success rate for Bridge Learning Campus, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Bristol, City of 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 Bristol, City of, 28% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 171 of 610 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 Bristol, City of.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Bristol, City of 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

Bridge Learning Campus turned first-choice families away in 1 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 Bridge Learning Campus, 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 0.86 per place 38 first choices 44 places 2016/17 0.72 per place 39 first choices 54 places 2017/18 0.73 per place 44 first choices 60 places 2018/19 0.54 per place 58 first choices 107 places 2019/20 0.36 per place 39 first choices 107 places 2020/21 0.36 per place 51 first choices 141 places 2021/22 0.37 per place 59 first choices 160 places 2022/23 0.38 per place 57 first choices 152 places 2023/24 0.32 per place 73 first choices 229 places 2024/25 0.88 per place 82 first choices 93 places 2025/26 1.17 per place 109 first choices 93 places 2026/27 0.94 per place 78 first choices 83 places
First preferences per place at Bridge Learning Campus. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 78 first preferences for 83 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Bridge Learning Campus, 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 44 38 38 0.86
2016/17 54 39 39 0.72
2017/18 60 44 44 0.73
2018/19 107 58 58 0.54
2019/20 107 39 38 0.36
2020/21 141 51 51 0.36
2021/22 160 59 59 0.37
2022/23 152 57 57 0.38
2023/24 229 73 73 0.32
2024/25 93 82 82 0.88
2025/26 93 109 91 1.17
2026/27 83 78 78 0.94

Places offered

83

in 2026/27

Named first choice

78

167 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

78 of 78

Offers to families outside the council

1%

1 of 83 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

1,395

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,176

84.3% of capacity

Unfilled places

219

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 Bridge Learning Campus 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 Bridge Learning Campus reported 219 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 84.3% 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 Bridge Learning Campus from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 1,365 places 1,005 on roll 2013/14 1,395 places 975 on roll 2014/15 1,395 places 947 on roll 2015/16 1,395 places 922 on roll 2016/17 1,395 places 924 on roll 2017/18 1,395 places 930 on roll 2018/19 1,395 places 924 on roll 2020/21 1,395 places 951 on roll 2021/22 1,395 places 1,013 on roll 2022/23 1,395 places 1,111 on roll 2023/24 1,395 places 1,158 on roll 2024/25 1,395 places 1,176 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
Bristol, City of

Postcode BS13 0RL. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139049).

Other contested secondary schools in Bristol, City of

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.