School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Leigh Stationers' Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 222 families who named Leigh Stationers' Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 240 and 417 put it first.

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

1.74

first choices for every place available

417 first preferences for 240 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Leigh Stationers' Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Leigh Stationers' 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 Greenwich 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 Greenwich, 6.3% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 39 of 617 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 Greenwich.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Greenwich 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

Leigh Stationers' Academy turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. More families named it first than it had places in 10 of those years. In the other 2 it had places on paper and still turned first-choice families away — which happens where families who may not meet a school's criteria rank it below a safer choice — common at selective, faith and single-sex schools, and it means the first-preference count understates how wanted the school is.

First preferences per place at Leigh Stationers' Academy, 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 1.42 per place 369 first choices 260 places 2016/17 0.98 per place 281 first choices 287 places 2017/18 1.59 per place 406 first choices 256 places 2018/19 1.19 per place 311 first choices 261 places 2019/20 1.24 per place 309 first choices 250 places 2020/21 1.05 per place 271 first choices 259 places 2021/22 0.81 per place 213 first choices 263 places 2022/23 1.29 per place 335 first choices 260 places 2023/24 1.17 per place 299 first choices 255 places 2024/25 1.5 per place 382 first choices 254 places 2025/26 1.45 per place 366 first choices 253 places 2026/27 1.74 per place 417 first choices 240 places
First preferences per place at Leigh Stationers' Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 417 first preferences for 240 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Leigh Stationers' Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 260 369 219 1.42
2016/17 287 281 199 0.98
2017/18 256 406 206 1.59
2018/19 261 311 179 1.19
2019/20 250 309 180 1.24
2020/21 259 271 191 1.05
2021/22 263 213 162 0.81
2022/23 260 335 195 1.29
2023/24 255 299 194 1.17
2024/25 254 382 189 1.5
2025/26 253 366 208 1.45
2026/27 240 417 195 1.74

Places offered

240

in 2026/27

Named first choice

417

1,248 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

46.8%

195 of 417

Offers to families outside the council

60%

145 of 240 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

1,350

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,398

103.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

48

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

450

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 Leigh Stationers' 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 Leigh Stationers' Academy was at or beyond its stated capacity across Years 7 to 11. A school in that position has a straightforward case that another admission would cause it difficulty, and an appeal here has to succeed on the strength of your child's own circumstances rather than on spare room.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2014/15 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Leigh Stationers' Academy from 2014/15 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 900 1,800 places on roll 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2014/15 1,800 places 1,572 on roll 2015/16 1,800 places 1,606 on roll 2016/17 1,800 places 1,634 on roll 2017/18 1,800 places 1,643 on roll 2018/19 1,800 places 1,606 on roll 2020/21 1,800 places 1,620 on roll 2021/22 1,800 places 1,603 on roll 2022/23 1,800 places 1,571 on roll 2023/24 1,800 places 1,635 on roll 2024/25 1,800 places 1,709 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
Greenwich

Postcode SE9 2PT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 141309).

Other contested secondary schools in Greenwich

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.