School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Beverley High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 10 families who named Beverley High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 148 and 154 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.

1.04

first choices for every place available

154 first preferences for 148 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Beverley High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Beverley 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 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 High School 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 Beverley High School, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.5 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 0.98 per place 130 first choices 133 places 2016/17 1.15 per place 172 first choices 150 places 2017/18 1.01 per place 150 first choices 148 places 2018/19 1.07 per place 160 first choices 149 places 2019/20 1.19 per place 179 first choices 150 places 2020/21 1.49 per place 219 first choices 147 places 2021/22 1.13 per place 168 first choices 149 places 2022/23 1.05 per place 154 first choices 147 places 2023/24 1 per place 146 first choices 146 places 2024/25 1.09 per place 162 first choices 148 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 148 first choices 149 places 2026/27 1.04 per place 154 first choices 148 places
First preferences per place at Beverley High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 154 first preferences for 148 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Beverley 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
2015/16 133 130 130 0.98
2016/17 150 172 149 1.15
2017/18 148 150 145 1.01
2018/19 149 160 147 1.07
2019/20 150 179 149 1.19
2020/21 147 219 146 1.49
2021/22 149 168 147 1.13
2022/23 147 154 147 1.05
2023/24 146 146 142 1
2024/25 148 162 148 1.09
2025/26 149 148 146 0.99
2026/27 148 154 144 1.04

Places offered

148

in 2026/27

Named first choice

154

222 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.5%

144 of 154

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 148 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

750

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

730

97.3% of capacity

Unfilled places

20

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

170

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 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 Beverley High School reported 20 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 97.3% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Beverley High School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 833 places 851 on roll 2010/11 924 places 875 on roll 2011/12 924 places 885 on roll 2012/13 950 places 871 on roll 2013/14 950 places 843 on roll 2014/15 950 places 812 on roll 2015/16 950 places 805 on roll 2016/17 940 places 818 on roll 2017/18 940 places 852 on roll 2018/19 940 places 863 on roll 2020/21 920 places 854 on roll 2021/22 920 places 852 on roll 2022/23 920 places 851 on roll 2023/24 920 places 845 on roll 2024/25 920 places 811 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
Community school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
East Riding of Yorkshire

Postcode HU17 9EX. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 118072).

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.