School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Langley Park School for Boys?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 131 families who named Langley Park School for Boys as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 202 and 320 put it first.

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

1.58

first choices for every place available

320 first preferences for 202 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Langley Park School for Boys

There is no published appeal success rate for Langley Park School for Boys, 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

Langley Park School for Boys 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 Langley Park School for Boys, 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 1.51 per place 346 first choices 229 places 2016/17 1.83 per place 369 first choices 202 places 2017/18 1.81 per place 376 first choices 208 places 2018/19 1.66 per place 362 first choices 218 places 2019/20 1.63 per place 353 first choices 217 places 2020/21 1.25 per place 274 first choices 220 places 2021/22 1.33 per place 300 first choices 226 places 2022/23 1.37 per place 299 first choices 218 places 2023/24 1.36 per place 316 first choices 232 places 2024/25 1.4 per place 326 first choices 233 places 2025/26 1.55 per place 306 first choices 198 places 2026/27 1.58 per place 320 first choices 202 places
First preferences per place at Langley Park School for Boys. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 320 first preferences for 202 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Langley Park School for Boys, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 229 346 217 1.51
2016/17 202 369 187 1.83
2017/18 208 376 195 1.81
2018/19 218 362 208 1.66
2019/20 217 353 207 1.63
2020/21 220 274 205 1.25
2021/22 226 300 201 1.33
2022/23 218 299 205 1.37
2023/24 232 316 221 1.36
2024/25 233 326 219 1.4
2025/26 198 306 185 1.55
2026/27 202 320 189 1.58

Places offered

202

in 2026/27

Named first choice

320

900 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

59.1%

189 of 320

Offers to families outside the council

9%

19 of 202 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

1,234

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,159

93.9% of capacity

Unfilled places

75

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

617

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 Langley Park School for Boys 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 Langley Park School for Boys reported 75 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 93.9% 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Langley Park School for Boys from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 950 1,900 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,485 places 1,667 on roll 2011/12 1,676 places 1,674 on roll 2012/13 1,676 places 1,678 on roll 2013/14 1,676 places 1,675 on roll 2014/15 1,676 places 1,687 on roll 2015/16 1,676 places 1,706 on roll 2016/17 1,676 places 1,737 on roll 2017/18 1,676 places 1,720 on roll 2018/19 1,676 places 1,710 on roll 2020/21 1,676 places 1,698 on roll 2021/22 1,676 places 1,722 on roll 2022/23 1,676 places 1,745 on roll 2023/24 1,676 places 1,779 on roll 2024/25 1,851 places 1,815 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. Langley Park School for Boys has been the subject of 2 such determinations. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code in each of them.

Adjudicator determinations naming Langley Park School for Boys. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
7 July 2020 Arrangements did not comply ADA3737
19 May 2016 Arrangements did not comply ADA3082

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

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 3BP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136586).

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.