School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Twyford Church of England High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 222 families who named Twyford Church of England High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 189 and 369 put it first.

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

1.95

first choices for every place available

369 first preferences for 189 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Twyford Church of England High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Twyford Church of England High 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 Ealing 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 Ealing, 18.7% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 110 of 587 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 Ealing.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Ealing 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

Twyford Church of England High School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Twyford Church of England High School, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.8 1.5 2.3 3.0 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 2.09 per place 384 first choices 184 places 2016/17 2.34 per place 436 first choices 186 places 2017/18 2.31 per place 435 first choices 188 places 2018/19 2.55 per place 480 first choices 188 places 2019/20 2.49 per place 443 first choices 178 places 2020/21 2.26 per place 433 first choices 192 places 2021/22 2.03 per place 383 first choices 189 places 2022/23 1.81 per place 355 first choices 196 places 2023/24 1.75 per place 331 first choices 189 places 2024/25 2.05 per place 391 first choices 191 places 2025/26 2.05 per place 390 first choices 190 places 2026/27 1.95 per place 369 first choices 189 places
First preferences per place at Twyford Church of England High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 369 first preferences for 189 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Twyford Church of England High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 184 384 164 2.09
2016/17 186 436 170 2.34
2017/18 188 435 172 2.31
2018/19 188 480 163 2.55
2019/20 178 443 161 2.49
2020/21 192 433 164 2.26
2021/22 189 383 155 2.03
2022/23 196 355 176 1.81
2023/24 189 331 164 1.75
2024/25 191 391 172 2.05
2025/26 190 390 167 2.05
2026/27 189 369 147 1.95

Places offered

189

in 2026/27

Named first choice

369

1,370 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

39.8%

147 of 369

Offers to families outside the council

37%

64 of 171 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

1,047

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

993

94.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

54

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

500

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 Twyford Church of England High 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 Twyford Church of England High School reported 54 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 94.8% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Twyford Church of England High School from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 850 1,700 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,450 places 1,459 on roll 2012/13 1,324 places 1,423 on roll 2013/14 1,450 places 1,447 on roll 2014/15 1,450 places 1,482 on roll 2015/16 1,450 places 1,506 on roll 2016/17 1,450 places 1,462 on roll 2017/18 1,450 places 1,461 on roll 2018/19 1,450 places 1,472 on roll 2020/21 1,450 places 1,517 on roll 2021/22 1,450 places 1,568 on roll 2022/23 1,450 places 1,630 on roll 2023/24 1,450 places 1,624 on roll 2024/25 1,547 places 1,623 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. Twyford Church of England High School has been the subject of 4 such determinations. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code in 3 of them.

Adjudicator determinations naming Twyford Church of England High School. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
18 November 2024 No fault found ADA4316
15 July 2022 Arrangements did not comply ADA3899
19 September 2014 Arrangements did not comply ADA2750
29 November 2013 Arrangements did not comply ADA2549

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

What these figures do not tell you

About the school

Type
Academy converter
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Ealing

Postcode W3 9PP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137546).

Other contested secondary schools in Ealing

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.