School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Snaith School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 3 families who named The Snaith School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 186 and 187 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

187 first preferences for 186 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Snaith School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Snaith 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 Snaith School turned first-choice families away in 4 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 Snaith 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 0.97 per place 181 first choices 186 places 2016/17 0.99 per place 186 first choices 187 places 2017/18 1.21 per place 211 first choices 175 places 2018/19 0.98 per place 173 first choices 176 places 2019/20 1.09 per place 206 first choices 189 places 2020/21 1 per place 171 first choices 171 places 2021/22 1 per place 128 first choices 128 places 2022/23 0.98 per place 163 first choices 166 places 2023/24 0.94 per place 116 first choices 123 places 2024/25 1.01 per place 168 first choices 166 places 2025/26 0.96 per place 168 first choices 175 places 2026/27 1.01 per place 187 first choices 186 places
First preferences per place at The Snaith School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 187 first preferences for 186 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Snaith School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 186 181 178 0.97
2016/17 187 186 183 0.99
2017/18 175 211 174 1.21
2018/19 176 173 173 0.98
2019/20 189 206 189 1.09
2020/21 171 171 171 1
2021/22 128 128 128 1
2022/23 166 163 163 0.98
2023/24 123 116 116 0.94
2024/25 166 168 166 1.01
2025/26 175 168 167 0.96
2026/27 186 187 184 1.01

Places offered

186

in 2026/27

Named first choice

187

257 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

98.4%

184 of 187

Offers to families outside the council

47%

88 of 186 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

970

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

806

83.1% of capacity

Unfilled places

164

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 Snaith 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 Snaith School reported 164 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 83.1% 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at The Snaith School from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 972 places 910 on roll 2014/15 985 places 916 on roll 2015/16 985 places 933 on roll 2016/17 985 places 934 on roll 2017/18 985 places 946 on roll 2018/19 985 places 929 on roll 2020/21 972 places 906 on roll 2021/22 972 places 864 on roll 2022/23 972 places 843 on roll 2023/24 972 places 772 on roll 2024/25 970 places 806 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 9LB. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 140866).

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.