School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Latymer School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 186 families who named The Latymer School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 192 and 339 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Enfield actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 12 years of official figures.

1.77

first choices for every place available

339 first preferences for 192 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Latymer School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Latymer 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 Enfield 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 Enfield, 12.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 48 of 393 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 Enfield.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Enfield 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 Latymer School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at The Latymer School, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 1.1 2.3 3.4 4.5 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 2.13 per place 397 first choices 186 places 2016/17 1.65 per place 315 first choices 191 places 2017/18 1.48 per place 282 first choices 191 places 2018/19 2.42 per place 464 first choices 192 places 2019/20 1.37 per place 263 first choices 192 places 2020/21 1.44 per place 272 first choices 189 places 2021/22 4.19 per place 791 first choices 189 places 2022/23 1.58 per place 298 first choices 189 places 2023/24 1.83 per place 347 first choices 190 places 2024/25 1.73 per place 332 first choices 192 places 2025/26 1.96 per place 372 first choices 190 places 2026/27 1.77 per place 339 first choices 192 places
First preferences per place at The Latymer School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 339 first preferences for 192 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at The Latymer School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 186 397 157 2.13
2016/17 191 315 165 1.65
2017/18 191 282 164 1.48
2018/19 192 464 171 2.42
2019/20 192 263 140 1.37
2020/21 189 272 148 1.44
2021/22 189 791 141 4.19
2022/23 189 298 151 1.58
2023/24 190 347 141 1.83
2024/25 192 332 145 1.73
2025/26 190 372 148 1.96
2026/27 192 339 153 1.77

Places offered

192

in 2026/27

Named first choice

339

917 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

45.1%

153 of 339

Offers to families outside the council

71%

136 of 192 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

1,003

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

958

95.5% of capacity

Unfilled places

45

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

435

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 Latymer 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 Latymer School reported 45 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 95.5% 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 Latymer School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,438 places 1,369 on roll 2010/11 1,438 places 1,368 on roll 2011/12 1,438 places 1,370 on roll 2012/13 1,438 places 1,370 on roll 2013/14 1,438 places 1,378 on roll 2014/15 1,438 places 1,365 on roll 2015/16 1,438 places 1,366 on roll 2016/17 1,438 places 1,366 on roll 2017/18 1,438 places 1,380 on roll 2018/19 1,438 places 1,391 on roll 2020/21 1,438 places 1,381 on roll 2021/22 1,438 places 1,363 on roll 2022/23 1,438 places 1,355 on roll 2023/24 1,438 places 1,380 on roll 2024/25 1,438 places 1,375 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. The Latymer School has been the subject of 2 such determinations. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code in each of them.

Adjudicator determinations naming The Latymer School. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
31 May 2023 Arrangements did not comply ADA4113
23 June 2016 Arrangements did not comply ADA3107

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

What these figures do not tell you

About the school

Type
Voluntary aided school
Admissions policy
Selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Enfield

Postcode N9 9TN. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 102055).

Other contested secondary schools in Enfield

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.