School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Harris Girls Academy Bromley?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 57 families who named Harris Girls Academy Bromley as their first choice did not get a place: 169 put it first and 112 of them were offered one.

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

57

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

169 first preferences for 175 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Harris Girls Academy Bromley

There is no published appeal success rate for Harris Girls Academy Bromley, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Bromley 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 Bromley, 5.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 21 of 390 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 Bromley.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Bromley 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

Harris Girls Academy Bromley turned first-choice families away in 5 of the last 12 years. It has never had more first choices than places, and refused families who named it first anyway — which happens where families who may not meet a school's criteria rank it below a safer choice — common at selective, faith and single-sex schools, and it means the first-preference count understates how wanted the school is.

First preferences per place at Harris Girls Academy Bromley, 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 0.44 per place 57 first choices 130 places 2016/17 0.41 per place 67 first choices 162 places 2017/18 0.53 per place 94 first choices 177 places 2018/19 0.43 per place 86 first choices 201 places 2019/20 0.64 per place 121 first choices 190 places 2020/21 0.44 per place 86 first choices 195 places 2021/22 0.6 per place 118 first choices 196 places 2022/23 0.49 per place 112 first choices 230 places 2023/24 0.45 per place 104 first choices 229 places 2024/25 0.62 per place 128 first choices 207 places 2025/26 0.69 per place 123 first choices 179 places 2026/27 0.97 per place 169 first choices 175 places
First preferences per place at Harris Girls Academy Bromley. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 169 first preferences for 175 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Harris Girls Academy Bromley, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 130 57 57 0.44
2016/17 162 67 67 0.41
2017/18 177 94 94 0.53
2018/19 201 86 86 0.43
2019/20 190 121 98 0.64
2020/21 195 86 79 0.44
2021/22 196 118 94 0.6
2022/23 230 112 110 0.49
2023/24 229 104 98 0.45
2024/25 207 128 111 0.62
2025/26 179 123 103 0.69
2026/27 175 169 112 0.97

Places offered

175

in 2026/27

Named first choice

169

773 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

66.3%

112 of 169

Offers to families outside the council

49%

85 of 175 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

747

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

927

124.1% of capacity

Over its capacity by

180

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

420

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 Harris Girls Academy Bromley 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 Harris Girls Academy Bromley 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Harris Girls Academy Bromley from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,320 places 1,067 on roll 2012/13 1,320 places 985 on roll 2013/14 1,320 places 892 on roll 2014/15 1,320 places 814 on roll 2015/16 1,320 places 787 on roll 2016/17 1,320 places 775 on roll 2017/18 1,320 places 852 on roll 2018/19 1,320 places 930 on roll 2020/21 1,320 places 1,008 on roll 2021/22 1,320 places 1,016 on roll 2022/23 1,320 places 1,051 on roll 2023/24 1,320 places 1,068 on roll 2024/25 1,167 places 1,087 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
Bromley

Postcode BR3 1QR. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137379).

Other contested secondary schools in Bromley

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.