School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Redland Green School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 114 families who named Redland Green School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 225 and 337 put it first.

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

1.50

first choices for every place available

337 first preferences for 225 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Redland Green School

There is no published appeal success rate for Redland Green 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 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

Redland Green 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 Redland Green School, 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 1.61 per place 284 first choices 176 places 2016/17 1.21 per place 257 first choices 212 places 2017/18 1.36 per place 283 first choices 208 places 2018/19 1.44 per place 322 first choices 224 places 2019/20 1.54 per place 352 first choices 228 places 2020/21 1.61 per place 370 first choices 230 places 2021/22 1.54 per place 344 first choices 223 places 2022/23 1.57 per place 346 first choices 221 places 2023/24 1.98 per place 425 first choices 215 places 2024/25 1.68 per place 372 first choices 222 places 2025/26 1.52 per place 330 first choices 217 places 2026/27 1.5 per place 337 first choices 225 places
First preferences per place at Redland Green School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 337 first preferences for 225 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Redland Green School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 176 284 167 1.61
2016/17 212 257 203 1.21
2017/18 208 283 192 1.36
2018/19 224 322 211 1.44
2019/20 228 352 208 1.54
2020/21 230 370 218 1.61
2021/22 223 344 212 1.54
2022/23 221 346 212 1.57
2023/24 215 425 212 1.98
2024/25 222 372 222 1.68
2025/26 217 330 217 1.52
2026/27 225 337 223 1.5

Places offered

225

in 2026/27

Named first choice

337

761 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

66.2%

223 of 337

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 225 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

1,160

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,179

101.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

19

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

400

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 Redland Green 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 Redland Green 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, 2012/13 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Redland Green School from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 850 1,700 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 1,414 places 1,362 on roll 2013/14 1,414 places 1,359 on roll 2014/15 1,414 places 1,396 on roll 2015/16 1,414 places 1,383 on roll 2016/17 1,414 places 1,400 on roll 2017/18 1,414 places 1,447 on roll 2018/19 1,414 places 1,473 on roll 2020/21 1,414 places 1,625 on roll 2021/22 1,560 places 1,629 on roll 2022/23 1,560 places 1,628 on roll 2023/24 1,560 places 1,658 on roll 2024/25 1,560 places 1,676 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
Bristol, City of

Postcode BS6 7EH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138855).

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.