School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Oasis Academy Brislington?

In 2026/27, Oasis Academy Brislington offered 224 places and 204 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.

0.91

first choices for every place available

204 first preferences for 224 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Oasis Academy Brislington

There is no published appeal success rate for Oasis Academy Brislington, 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

Oasis Academy Brislington turned first-choice families away in 2 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 Oasis Academy Brislington, 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 0.75 per place 99 first choices 132 places 2016/17 0.7 per place 106 first choices 152 places 2017/18 0.54 per place 74 first choices 137 places 2018/19 0.59 per place 131 first choices 223 places 2019/20 0.66 per place 172 first choices 259 places 2020/21 0.79 per place 215 first choices 271 places 2021/22 0.89 per place 235 first choices 265 places 2022/23 0.92 per place 267 first choices 289 places 2023/24 1.27 per place 333 first choices 262 places 2024/25 1.06 per place 274 first choices 259 places 2025/26 0.93 per place 248 first choices 266 places 2026/27 0.91 per place 204 first choices 224 places
First preferences per place at Oasis Academy Brislington. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 204 first preferences for 224 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Oasis Academy Brislington, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 132 99 99 0.75
2016/17 152 106 106 0.7
2017/18 137 74 74 0.54
2018/19 223 131 131 0.59
2019/20 259 172 172 0.66
2020/21 271 215 215 0.79
2021/22 265 235 223 0.89
2022/23 289 267 250 0.92
2023/24 262 333 249 1.27
2024/25 259 274 248 1.06
2025/26 266 248 248 0.93
2026/27 224 204 204 0.91

Places offered

224

in 2026/27

Named first choice

204

343 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

204 of 204

Offers to families outside the council

0%

1 of 219 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

1,303

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,356

104.1% of capacity

Over its capacity by

53

reported as full or beyond

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 Oasis Academy Brislington 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 Oasis Academy Brislington 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 Oasis Academy Brislington from 2014/15 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2014/15 1,303 places 1,067 on roll 2015/16 1,303 places 915 on roll 2016/17 1,303 places 824 on roll 2017/18 1,303 places 724 on roll 2018/19 1,303 places 804 on roll 2020/21 1,303 places 1,043 on roll 2021/22 1,303 places 1,177 on roll 2022/23 1,303 places 1,317 on roll 2023/24 1,303 places 1,372 on roll 2024/25 1,303 places 1,356 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 BS4 5EY. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 141652).

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.