School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy?

In 2026/27, Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy offered 157 places and 140 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.89

first choices for every place available

140 first preferences for 157 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Calderdale 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 Calderdale, 14.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 46 of 319 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 Calderdale.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Calderdale 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

Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy turned first-choice families away in 2 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 Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy, 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 0.82 per place 111 first choices 135 places 2016/17 0.8 per place 122 first choices 152 places 2017/18 0.89 per place 157 first choices 176 places 2018/19 0.77 per place 142 first choices 184 places 2019/20 0.82 per place 140 first choices 170 places 2020/21 0.83 per place 147 first choices 177 places 2021/22 1.11 per place 196 first choices 176 places 2022/23 0.96 per place 162 first choices 168 places 2023/24 0.96 per place 163 first choices 169 places 2024/25 0.87 per place 148 first choices 170 places 2025/26 1.04 per place 174 first choices 168 places 2026/27 0.89 per place 140 first choices 157 places
First preferences per place at Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 140 first preferences for 157 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 135 111 111 0.82
2016/17 152 122 122 0.8
2017/18 176 157 150 0.89
2018/19 184 142 141 0.77
2019/20 170 140 135 0.82
2020/21 177 147 145 0.83
2021/22 176 196 161 1.11
2022/23 168 162 154 0.96
2023/24 169 163 149 0.96
2024/25 170 148 148 0.87
2025/26 168 174 156 1.04
2026/27 157 140 140 0.89

Places offered

157

in 2026/27

Named first choice

140

289 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

140 of 140

Offers to families outside the council

26%

40 of 155 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 107564.

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

1,091

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

852

78.1% of capacity

Unfilled places

239

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

0

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 Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy 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 Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy reported 239 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 78.1% 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 Todmorden High School, A SHARE Academy from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,008 places 741 on roll 2010/11 939 places 740 on roll 2011/12 939 places 743 on roll 2012/13 939 places 713 on roll 2013/14 939 places 667 on roll 2014/15 939 places 671 on roll 2015/16 939 places 682 on roll 2016/17 939 places 722 on roll 2017/18 939 places 735 on roll 2018/19 939 places 786 on roll 2020/21 939 places 885 on roll 2021/22 939 places 889 on roll 2022/23 939 places 882 on roll 2023/24 939 places 866 on roll 2024/25 1,091 places 852 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
Calderdale

Postcode OL14 7DG. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 151559).

Other contested secondary schools in Calderdale

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.