School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Goole Academy?

In 2026/27, Goole Academy offered 259 places and 259 families named it as their first choice.

Below: what an appeal in East Riding of Yorkshire actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 8 years of official figures.

1

first choices for every place available

259 first preferences for 259 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Goole Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Goole 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 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

Goole Academy turned first-choice families away in 3 of the last 8 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Goole Academy, 2019/20 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 19/20 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 25/26 26/27 2019/20 0.95 per place 176 first choices 186 places 2020/21 1 per place 199 first choices 199 places 2021/22 1 per place 272 first choices 272 places 2022/23 1 per place 234 first choices 233 places 2023/24 0.98 per place 257 first choices 262 places 2024/25 1 per place 259 first choices 258 places 2025/26 1.02 per place 285 first choices 279 places 2026/27 1 per place 259 first choices 259 places
First preferences per place at Goole Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 259 first preferences for 259 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Goole Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2019/20 186 176 176 0.95
2020/21 199 199 199 1
2021/22 272 272 272 1
2022/23 233 234 233 1
2023/24 262 257 257 0.98
2024/25 258 259 257 1
2025/26 279 285 279 1.02
2026/27 259 259 259 1

Places offered

259

in 2026/27

Named first choice

259

284 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

259 of 259

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 259 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

1,683

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,257

74.7% of capacity

Unfilled places

426

across Years 7 to 11

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 Goole 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 Goole Academy reported 426 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 74.7% 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, 2017/18 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Goole Academy from 2017/18 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 900 1,800 places on roll 17/18 18/19 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 2017/18 1,750 places 871 on roll 2018/19 1,214 places 861 on roll 2020/21 1,750 places 958 on roll 2021/22 1,750 places 1,081 on roll 2022/23 1,750 places 1,118 on roll 2023/24 1,750 places 1,161 on roll 2024/25 1,683 places 1,257 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 DN14 6AN. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 145929).

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.