School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Brookfield Community School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 45 families who named Brookfield Community School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 385 and 426 put it first.

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

1.11

first choices for every place available

426 first preferences for 385 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Brookfield Community School

There is no published appeal success rate for Brookfield Community 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire, 34.3% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 310 of 903 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 Hampshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Hampshire 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

Brookfield Community School turned first-choice families away in 11 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 Brookfield Community 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 1.03 per place 370 first choices 360 places 2016/17 1.1 per place 395 first choices 359 places 2017/18 0.97 per place 346 first choices 357 places 2018/19 1.09 per place 396 first choices 362 places 2019/20 1.1 per place 395 first choices 358 places 2020/21 1.09 per place 407 first choices 374 places 2021/22 1.1 per place 395 first choices 359 places 2022/23 1.05 per place 376 first choices 358 places 2023/24 1.06 per place 411 first choices 386 places 2024/25 1.03 per place 356 first choices 347 places 2025/26 1.09 per place 450 first choices 411 places 2026/27 1.11 per place 426 first choices 385 places
First preferences per place at Brookfield Community School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 426 first preferences for 385 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Brookfield Community School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 360 370 353 1.03
2016/17 359 395 359 1.1
2017/18 357 346 346 0.97
2018/19 362 396 358 1.09
2019/20 358 395 357 1.1
2020/21 374 407 373 1.09
2021/22 359 395 359 1.1
2022/23 358 376 356 1.05
2023/24 386 411 382 1.06
2024/25 347 356 340 1.03
2025/26 411 450 408 1.09
2026/27 385 426 381 1.11

Places offered

385

in 2026/27

Named first choice

426

618 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

89.4%

381 of 426

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 385 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

1,800

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,800

100% of capacity

Unfilled places

0

reported as full or beyond

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 Brookfield Community 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 Brookfield Community School 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Brookfield Community School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 950 1,900 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,745 places 1,738 on roll 2010/11 1,755 places 1,737 on roll 2011/12 1,755 places 1,733 on roll 2012/13 1,755 places 1,720 on roll 2013/14 1,755 places 1,657 on roll 2014/15 1,755 places 1,682 on roll 2015/16 1,755 places 1,702 on roll 2016/17 1,800 places 1,720 on roll 2017/18 1,800 places 1,727 on roll 2018/19 1,800 places 1,768 on roll 2020/21 1,800 places 1,796 on roll 2021/22 1,800 places 1,785 on roll 2022/23 1,800 places 1,786 on roll 2023/24 1,800 places 1,815 on roll 2024/25 1,800 places 1,800 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
Hampshire

Postcode SO31 7DU. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 116419).

Other contested secondary schools in Hampshire

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.