School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Newquay Tretherras?

In 2026/27, Newquay Tretherras offered 237 places and 231 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.97

first choices for every place available

231 first preferences for 237 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Newquay Tretherras

There is no published appeal success rate for Newquay Tretherras, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Cornwall 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 Cornwall, 40.7% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 105 of 258 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 Cornwall.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Cornwall 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

Newquay Tretherras 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 Newquay Tretherras, 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 0.97 per place 264 first choices 272 places 2016/17 1 per place 264 first choices 264 places 2017/18 0.96 per place 283 first choices 294 places 2018/19 1.22 per place 364 first choices 298 places 2019/20 1.28 per place 380 first choices 297 places 2020/21 1.24 per place 364 first choices 293 places 2021/22 1.26 per place 360 first choices 286 places 2022/23 1.21 per place 356 first choices 294 places 2023/24 1.06 per place 314 first choices 297 places 2024/25 1.21 per place 358 first choices 297 places 2025/26 1 per place 289 first choices 289 places 2026/27 0.97 per place 231 first choices 237 places
First preferences per place at Newquay Tretherras. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 231 first preferences for 237 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Newquay Tretherras, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 272 264 264 0.97
2016/17 264 264 264 1
2017/18 294 283 283 0.96
2018/19 298 364 295 1.22
2019/20 297 380 296 1.28
2020/21 293 364 293 1.24
2021/22 286 360 286 1.26
2022/23 294 356 294 1.21
2023/24 297 314 294 1.06
2024/25 297 358 296 1.21
2025/26 289 289 289 1
2026/27 237 231 231 0.97

Places offered

237

in 2026/27

Named first choice

231

427 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

231 of 231

Offers to families outside the council

0%

1 of 235 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

1,615

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,434

88.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

181

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

221

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 Newquay Tretherras 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 Newquay Tretherras reported 181 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 88.8% 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 Newquay Tretherras 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 1,605 places 1,586 on roll 2011/12 1,613 places 1,609 on roll 2012/13 1,613 places 1,638 on roll 2013/14 1,660 places 1,623 on roll 2014/15 1,660 places 1,607 on roll 2015/16 1,660 places 1,614 on roll 2016/17 1,800 places 1,624 on roll 2017/18 1,800 places 1,640 on roll 2018/19 1,800 places 1,643 on roll 2020/21 1,800 places 1,706 on roll 2021/22 1,800 places 1,721 on roll 2022/23 1,800 places 1,722 on roll 2023/24 1,800 places 1,703 on roll 2024/25 1,836 places 1,628 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
Cornwall

Postcode TR7 3BH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136533).

Other contested secondary schools in Cornwall

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.