School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Beverley Grammar School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 10 families who named Beverley Grammar School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 139 and 147 put it first.

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

1.06

first choices for every place available

147 first preferences for 139 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Beverley Grammar School

There is no published appeal success rate for Beverley Grammar 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 East Riding of Yorkshire 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 East Riding of Yorkshire, 12% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 22 of 183 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 East Riding of Yorkshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not East Riding of Yorkshire 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

Beverley Grammar School 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 Beverley Grammar 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 0.99 per place 121 first choices 122 places 2016/17 0.95 per place 105 first choices 110 places 2017/18 1.11 per place 162 first choices 146 places 2018/19 1.08 per place 157 first choices 146 places 2019/20 1.14 per place 170 first choices 149 places 2020/21 1.04 per place 143 first choices 137 places 2021/22 1.1 per place 157 first choices 143 places 2022/23 0.99 per place 138 first choices 139 places 2023/24 1.11 per place 160 first choices 144 places 2024/25 0.97 per place 120 first choices 124 places 2025/26 1.04 per place 169 first choices 162 places 2026/27 1.06 per place 147 first choices 139 places
First preferences per place at Beverley Grammar School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 147 first preferences for 139 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Beverley Grammar School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 122 121 121 0.99
2016/17 110 105 105 0.95
2017/18 146 162 145 1.11
2018/19 146 157 145 1.08
2019/20 149 170 148 1.14
2020/21 137 143 136 1.04
2021/22 143 157 143 1.1
2022/23 139 138 137 0.99
2023/24 144 160 141 1.11
2024/25 124 120 120 0.97
2025/26 162 169 161 1.04
2026/27 139 147 137 1.06

Places offered

139

in 2026/27

Named first choice

147

210 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.2%

137 of 147

Offers to families outside the council

2%

3 of 139 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

680

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

718

105.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

38

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 Beverley Grammar 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 Beverley Grammar School 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Beverley Grammar School from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 880 places 856 on roll 2012/13 880 places 885 on roll 2013/14 880 places 846 on roll 2014/15 880 places 799 on roll 2015/16 880 places 769 on roll 2016/17 880 places 741 on roll 2017/18 880 places 784 on roll 2018/19 880 places 803 on roll 2020/21 880 places 821 on roll 2021/22 880 places 862 on roll 2022/23 880 places 859 on roll 2023/24 880 places 825 on roll 2024/25 880 places 802 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
East Riding of Yorkshire

Postcode HU17 8NF. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136995).

Other contested secondary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire

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.