School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Langley Park School for Girls?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 117 families who named Langley Park School for Girls as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 249 and 348 put it first.

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

1.40

first choices for every place available

348 first preferences for 249 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Langley Park School for Girls

There is no published appeal success rate for Langley Park School for Girls, 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 Girls 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 Girls, 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 1.01 per place 251 first choices 248 places 2016/17 1.17 per place 289 first choices 248 places 2017/18 1.2 per place 288 first choices 241 places 2018/19 1.06 per place 266 first choices 250 places 2019/20 1.06 per place 263 first choices 249 places 2020/21 1.1 per place 274 first choices 250 places 2021/22 1.15 per place 286 first choices 248 places 2022/23 1.31 per place 309 first choices 236 places 2023/24 1.37 per place 366 first choices 268 places 2024/25 1.09 per place 289 first choices 265 places 2025/26 1.22 per place 289 first choices 236 places 2026/27 1.4 per place 348 first choices 249 places
First preferences per place at Langley Park School for Girls. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 348 first preferences for 249 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Langley Park School for Girls, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 248 251 202 1.01
2016/17 248 289 219 1.17
2017/18 241 288 206 1.2
2018/19 250 266 209 1.06
2019/20 249 263 212 1.06
2020/21 250 274 208 1.1
2021/22 248 286 220 1.15
2022/23 236 309 211 1.31
2023/24 268 366 248 1.37
2024/25 265 289 231 1.09
2025/26 236 289 209 1.22
2026/27 249 348 231 1.4

Places offered

249

in 2026/27

Named first choice

348

964 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

66.4%

231 of 348

Offers to families outside the council

13%

33 of 249 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

1,200

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,253

104.4% of capacity

Over its capacity by

53

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

442

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 Girls 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 Girls 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 Langley Park School for Girls from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 900 1,800 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,642 places 1,589 on roll 2012/13 1,642 places 1,588 on roll 2013/14 1,642 places 1,636 on roll 2014/15 1,642 places 1,691 on roll 2015/16 1,642 places 1,688 on roll 2016/17 1,642 places 1,682 on roll 2017/18 1,642 places 1,585 on roll 2018/19 1,642 places 1,476 on roll 2020/21 1,642 places 1,595 on roll 2021/22 1,642 places 1,701 on roll 2022/23 1,642 places 1,707 on roll 2023/24 1,642 places 1,687 on roll 2024/25 1,642 places 1,707 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 3BE. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137006).

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.