School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Court Moor School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 12 families who named Court Moor School as their first choice did not get a place: 218 put it first and 206 of them were offered one.

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

12

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

218 first preferences for 221 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Court Moor School

There is no published appeal success rate for Court Moor 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

Court Moor School turned first-choice families away in 10 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 Court Moor 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 1.15 per place 257 first choices 223 places 2016/17 1.03 per place 225 first choices 219 places 2017/18 0.99 per place 223 first choices 226 places 2018/19 1.09 per place 248 first choices 227 places 2019/20 1.14 per place 249 first choices 218 places 2020/21 1.12 per place 254 first choices 226 places 2021/22 1.21 per place 281 first choices 233 places 2022/23 1.06 per place 240 first choices 226 places 2023/24 1.25 per place 280 first choices 224 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 235 first choices 220 places 2025/26 1.17 per place 256 first choices 219 places 2026/27 0.99 per place 218 first choices 221 places
First preferences per place at Court Moor School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 218 first preferences for 221 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Court Moor School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 223 257 215 1.15
2016/17 219 225 218 1.03
2017/18 226 223 219 0.99
2018/19 227 248 219 1.09
2019/20 218 249 209 1.14
2020/21 226 254 219 1.12
2021/22 233 281 223 1.21
2022/23 226 240 213 1.06
2023/24 224 280 202 1.25
2024/25 220 235 210 1.07
2025/26 219 256 204 1.17
2026/27 221 218 206 0.99

Places offered

221

in 2026/27

Named first choice

218

551 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

94.5%

206 of 218

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 221 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

1,140

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,136

99.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

4

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 Court Moor 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 Court Moor School reported 4 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.6% 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 Court Moor School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,100 places 1,097 on roll 2010/11 1,100 places 1,098 on roll 2011/12 1,100 places 1,095 on roll 2012/13 1,100 places 1,095 on roll 2013/14 1,100 places 1,089 on roll 2014/15 1,100 places 1,090 on roll 2015/16 1,100 places 1,093 on roll 2016/17 1,100 places 1,091 on roll 2017/18 1,100 places 1,094 on roll 2018/19 1,100 places 1,101 on roll 2020/21 1,140 places 1,126 on roll 2021/22 1,140 places 1,141 on roll 2022/23 1,140 places 1,142 on roll 2023/24 1,140 places 1,139 on roll 2024/25 1,140 places 1,136 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 GU52 7RY. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 116412).

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.