School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Market Weighton School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 14 families who named The Market Weighton School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 126 and 138 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.

1.10

first choices for every place available

138 first preferences for 126 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Market Weighton School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Market Weighton 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

The Market Weighton School turned first-choice families away in 1 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 The Market Weighton 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 0.93 per place 78 first choices 84 places 2016/17 0.97 per place 104 first choices 107 places 2017/18 0.94 per place 75 first choices 80 places 2018/19 0.98 per place 97 first choices 99 places 2019/20 0.73 per place 99 first choices 136 places 2020/21 0.75 per place 69 first choices 92 places 2021/22 0.94 per place 120 first choices 127 places 2022/23 0.78 per place 91 first choices 116 places 2023/24 0.97 per place 114 first choices 118 places 2024/25 0.95 per place 104 first choices 110 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 102 first choices 103 places 2026/27 1.1 per place 138 first choices 126 places
First preferences per place at The Market Weighton School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 138 first preferences for 126 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at The Market Weighton 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 84 78 78 0.93
2016/17 107 104 104 0.97
2017/18 80 75 75 0.94
2018/19 99 97 97 0.98
2019/20 136 99 99 0.73
2020/21 92 69 69 0.75
2021/22 127 120 120 0.94
2022/23 116 91 91 0.78
2023/24 118 114 114 0.97
2024/25 110 104 104 0.95
2025/26 103 102 102 0.99
2026/27 126 138 124 1.1

Places offered

126

in 2026/27

Named first choice

138

187 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

89.9%

124 of 138

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 126 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

828

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

623

75.2% of capacity

Unfilled places

205

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 The Market Weighton 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 The Market Weighton School reported 205 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 75.2% 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 The Market Weighton School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 810 places 619 on roll 2010/11 810 places 599 on roll 2011/12 810 places 544 on roll 2012/13 852 places 469 on roll 2013/14 852 places 449 on roll 2014/15 840 places 443 on roll 2015/16 840 places 447 on roll 2016/17 848 places 445 on roll 2017/18 848 places 449 on roll 2018/19 848 places 492 on roll 2020/21 848 places 519 on roll 2021/22 848 places 545 on roll 2022/23 848 places 584 on roll 2023/24 848 places 625 on roll 2024/25 828 places 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.

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 YO43 3JF. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 118076).

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.