School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Roseland Academy?

In 2026/27, The Roseland Academy offered 125 places and 120 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.

0.96

first choices for every place available

120 first preferences for 125 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Roseland Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for The Roseland 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 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

The Roseland Academy turned first-choice families away in 8 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 The Roseland 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 1.02 per place 126 first choices 124 places 2016/17 0.98 per place 127 first choices 129 places 2017/18 1 per place 123 first choices 123 places 2018/19 1.04 per place 140 first choices 135 places 2019/20 1.08 per place 143 first choices 132 places 2020/21 1.2 per place 143 first choices 119 places 2021/22 1.15 per place 148 first choices 129 places 2022/23 1.06 per place 138 first choices 130 places 2023/24 1.01 per place 140 first choices 138 places 2024/25 1.04 per place 143 first choices 138 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 131 first choices 132 places 2026/27 0.96 per place 120 first choices 125 places
First preferences per place at The Roseland Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 120 first preferences for 125 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Roseland Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 124 126 124 1.02
2016/17 129 127 127 0.98
2017/18 123 123 123 1
2018/19 135 140 134 1.04
2019/20 132 143 132 1.08
2020/21 119 143 119 1.2
2021/22 129 148 129 1.15
2022/23 130 138 128 1.06
2023/24 138 140 135 1.01
2024/25 138 143 138 1.04
2025/26 132 131 131 0.99
2026/27 125 120 120 0.96

Places offered

125

in 2026/27

Named first choice

120

204 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

120 of 120

Offers to families outside the council

2%

2 of 125 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

655

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

659

100.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

4

reported as full or beyond

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 The Roseland 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 The Roseland Academy 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at The Roseland Academy from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 350 700 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 655 places 625 on roll 2011/12 652 places 620 on roll 2012/13 652 places 617 on roll 2013/14 652 places 603 on roll 2014/15 655 places 642 on roll 2015/16 652 places 634 on roll 2016/17 655 places 623 on roll 2017/18 655 places 619 on roll 2018/19 655 places 635 on roll 2020/21 655 places 645 on roll 2021/22 655 places 646 on roll 2022/23 655 places 652 on roll 2023/24 655 places 655 on roll 2024/25 655 places 659 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 TR2 5SE. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136572).

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.