School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Manchester Mesivta School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 2 families who named Manchester Mesivta School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 41 and 43 put it first.

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

1.05

first choices for every place available

43 first preferences for 41 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Manchester Mesivta School

There is no published appeal success rate for Manchester Mesivta 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 Bury 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 Bury, 27.6% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 118 of 427 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 Bury.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Bury 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

Manchester Mesivta School turned first-choice families away in 6 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 Manchester Mesivta 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 1.14 per place 24 first choices 21 places 2016/17 1 per place 36 first choices 36 places 2017/18 1 per place 29 first choices 29 places 2018/19 1 per place 46 first choices 46 places 2019/20 1.02 per place 41 first choices 40 places 2020/21 1 per place 43 first choices 43 places 2021/22 1 per place 58 first choices 58 places 2022/23 1.03 per place 40 first choices 39 places 2023/24 1.02 per place 47 first choices 46 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 44 first choices 41 places 2025/26 1 per place 32 first choices 32 places 2026/27 1.05 per place 43 first choices 41 places
First preferences per place at Manchester Mesivta School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 43 first preferences for 41 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Manchester Mesivta 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 21 24 21 1.14
2016/17 36 36 36 1
2017/18 29 29 29 1
2018/19 46 46 46 1
2019/20 40 41 40 1.02
2020/21 43 43 43 1
2021/22 58 58 56 1
2022/23 39 40 39 1.03
2023/24 46 47 46 1.02
2024/25 41 44 41 1.07
2025/26 32 32 32 1
2026/27 41 43 41 1.05

Places offered

41

in 2026/27

Named first choice

43

45 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

95.3%

41 of 43

Offers to families outside the council

37%

15 of 41 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

351

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

208

59.3% of capacity

Unfilled places

143

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

40

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 Manchester Mesivta 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 Manchester Mesivta School reported 143 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 59.3% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Manchester Mesivta School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 200 400 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 396 places 186 on roll 2010/11 396 places 156 on roll 2011/12 396 places 142 on roll 2012/13 396 places 136 on roll 2013/14 391 places 118 on roll 2014/15 391 places 140 on roll 2015/16 391 places 131 on roll 2016/17 391 places 144 on roll 2017/18 391 places 168 on roll 2018/19 391 places 174 on roll 2020/21 391 places 202 on roll 2021/22 391 places 230 on roll 2022/23 391 places 226 on roll 2023/24 391 places 245 on roll 2024/25 391 places 241 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. Manchester Mesivta School has been the subject of one such determination. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code.

Adjudicator determinations naming Manchester Mesivta School. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
1 October 2014 Arrangements did not comply ADA2776

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
Voluntary aided school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Bury

Postcode M25 0PH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 134195).

Other contested secondary schools in Bury

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.