School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Tytherington School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 16 families who named Tytherington School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 229 and 240 put it first.

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

1.05

first choices for every place available

240 first preferences for 229 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Tytherington School

There is no published appeal success rate for Tytherington 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 Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East, 31.5% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 57 of 181 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 Cheshire East.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Cheshire East 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

Tytherington School turned first-choice families away in 7 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 Tytherington 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 0.84 per place 174 first choices 208 places 2016/17 0.83 per place 150 first choices 180 places 2017/18 0.9 per place 187 first choices 207 places 2018/19 0.88 per place 207 first choices 235 places 2019/20 1.02 per place 244 first choices 240 places 2020/21 1.06 per place 253 first choices 239 places 2021/22 1.01 per place 242 first choices 240 places 2022/23 1.04 per place 247 first choices 238 places 2023/24 1.01 per place 242 first choices 240 places 2024/25 1 per place 241 first choices 240 places 2025/26 1 per place 239 first choices 240 places 2026/27 1.05 per place 240 first choices 229 places
First preferences per place at Tytherington School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 240 first preferences for 229 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Tytherington School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 208 174 174 0.84
2016/17 180 150 150 0.83
2017/18 207 187 187 0.9
2018/19 235 207 207 0.88
2019/20 240 244 220 1.02
2020/21 239 253 231 1.06
2021/22 240 242 230 1.01
2022/23 238 247 229 1.04
2023/24 240 242 226 1.01
2024/25 240 241 230 1
2025/26 240 239 233 1
2026/27 229 240 224 1.05

Places offered

229

in 2026/27

Named first choice

240

413 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.3%

224 of 240

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 229 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

1,171

97.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

29

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

278

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 Tytherington 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 Tytherington School reported 29 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 97.6% 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Tytherington School from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 1,281 places 1,058 on roll 2014/15 1,281 places 1,053 on roll 2015/16 1,281 places 1,026 on roll 2016/17 1,214 places 1,020 on roll 2017/18 1,214 places 1,049 on roll 2018/19 1,214 places 1,126 on roll 2020/21 1,214 places 1,272 on roll 2021/22 1,478 places 1,315 on roll 2022/23 1,478 places 1,366 on roll 2023/24 1,478 places 1,422 on roll 2024/25 1,478 places 1,414 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
Cheshire East

Postcode SK10 2EE. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 140791).

Other contested secondary schools in Cheshire East

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.