School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Eden Girls' School, Coventry?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 40 families who named Eden Girls' School, Coventry as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 150 and 175 put it first.

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

1.17

first choices for every place available

175 first preferences for 150 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Eden Girls' School, Coventry

There is no published appeal success rate for Eden Girls' School, Coventry, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Coventry 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 Coventry, 21.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 224 of 1,056 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 Coventry.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Coventry 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

Eden Girls' School, Coventry turned first-choice families away in 9 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 Eden Girls' School, Coventry, 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 per place 100 first choices 100 places 2016/17 0.98 per place 118 first choices 120 places 2017/18 0.96 per place 115 first choices 120 places 2018/19 1.28 per place 154 first choices 120 places 2019/20 1.43 per place 172 first choices 120 places 2020/21 1.31 per place 157 first choices 120 places 2021/22 1.41 per place 169 first choices 120 places 2022/23 1.48 per place 176 first choices 119 places 2023/24 1.64 per place 182 first choices 111 places 2024/25 1.71 per place 203 first choices 119 places 2025/26 1.69 per place 201 first choices 119 places 2026/27 1.17 per place 175 first choices 150 places
First preferences per place at Eden Girls' School, Coventry. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 175 first preferences for 150 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Eden Girls' School, Coventry, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 100 100 95 1
2016/17 120 118 111 0.98
2017/18 120 115 110 0.96
2018/19 120 154 106 1.28
2019/20 120 172 108 1.43
2020/21 120 157 111 1.31
2021/22 120 169 112 1.41
2022/23 119 176 116 1.48
2023/24 111 182 106 1.64
2024/25 119 203 115 1.71
2025/26 119 201 113 1.69
2026/27 150 175 135 1.17

Places offered

150

in 2026/27

Named first choice

175

290 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

77.1%

135 of 175

Offers to families outside the council

8%

12 of 150 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

500

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

598

119.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

98

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

200

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 Eden Girls' School, Coventry 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 Eden Girls' School, Coventry 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, 2014/15 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Eden Girls' School, Coventry from 2014/15 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2014/15 700 places 156 on roll 2015/16 700 places 258 on roll 2016/17 800 places 378 on roll 2017/18 700 places 500 on roll 2018/19 700 places 559 on roll 2020/21 700 places 598 on roll 2021/22 700 places 599 on roll 2022/23 700 places 606 on roll 2023/24 700 places 609 on roll 2024/25 700 places 598 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
Free schools
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Coventry

Postcode CV1 4FS. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 140958).

Other contested secondary schools in Coventry

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.