School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 7 families who named South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 340 and 343 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.

1.01

first choices for every place available

343 first preferences for 340 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College

There is no published appeal success rate for South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College, 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

South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College 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 South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College, 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 1.19 per place 414 first choices 349 places 2016/17 1.12 per place 382 first choices 342 places 2017/18 1.08 per place 377 first choices 350 places 2018/19 1.1 per place 376 first choices 342 places 2019/20 1.08 per place 411 first choices 379 places 2020/21 0.99 per place 340 first choices 345 places 2021/22 0.97 per place 300 first choices 308 places 2022/23 1.05 per place 363 first choices 345 places 2023/24 1.07 per place 369 first choices 346 places 2024/25 1 per place 341 first choices 340 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 337 first choices 339 places 2026/27 1.01 per place 343 first choices 340 places
First preferences per place at South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 343 first preferences for 340 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 349 414 348 1.19
2016/17 342 382 342 1.12
2017/18 350 377 350 1.08
2018/19 342 376 341 1.1
2019/20 379 411 378 1.08
2020/21 345 340 335 0.99
2021/22 308 300 299 0.97
2022/23 345 363 344 1.05
2023/24 346 369 345 1.07
2024/25 340 341 335 1
2025/26 339 337 335 0.99
2026/27 340 343 336 1.01

Places offered

340

in 2026/27

Named first choice

343

506 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

98%

336 of 343

Offers to families outside the council

3%

11 of 340 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

1,728

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,690

97.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

38

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

386

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 South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College 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 South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College reported 38 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 97.8% 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,150 2,300 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,783 places 1,951 on roll 2011/12 1,877 places 1,970 on roll 2012/13 1,877 places 2,009 on roll 2013/14 1,877 places 2,006 on roll 2014/15 1,877 places 2,077 on roll 2015/16 1,877 places 2,120 on roll 2016/17 2,232 places 2,152 on roll 2017/18 2,232 places 2,136 on roll 2018/19 2,232 places 2,144 on roll 2020/21 2,232 places 2,132 on roll 2021/22 2,232 places 2,107 on roll 2022/23 2,232 places 2,111 on roll 2023/24 2,232 places 2,099 on roll 2024/25 2,114 places 2,095 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 HU14 3HS. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136667).

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.