School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Everest Community Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 8 families who named Everest Community Academy as their first choice did not get a place: 122 put it first and 114 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.

8

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

122 first preferences for 141 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Everest Community Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Everest Community 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 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

Everest Community Academy turned first-choice families away in 4 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 3 of those years. In the other 1 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 Everest Community 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 0.86 per place 76 first choices 88 places 2016/17 0.85 per place 76 first choices 89 places 2017/18 0.59 per place 68 first choices 115 places 2018/19 0.62 per place 80 first choices 128 places 2019/20 0.85 per place 112 first choices 131 places 2020/21 0.7 per place 105 first choices 149 places 2021/22 0.81 per place 122 first choices 150 places 2022/23 1.21 per place 180 first choices 149 places 2023/24 1.19 per place 175 first choices 147 places 2024/25 1.02 per place 147 first choices 144 places 2025/26 0.94 per place 130 first choices 138 places 2026/27 0.87 per place 122 first choices 141 places
First preferences per place at Everest Community Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 122 first preferences for 141 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Everest Community 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 88 76 76 0.86
2016/17 89 76 76 0.85
2017/18 115 68 68 0.59
2018/19 128 80 80 0.62
2019/20 131 112 112 0.85
2020/21 149 105 105 0.7
2021/22 150 122 122 0.81
2022/23 149 180 141 1.21
2023/24 147 175 138 1.19
2024/25 144 147 128 1.02
2025/26 138 130 116 0.94
2026/27 141 122 114 0.87

Places offered

141

in 2026/27

Named first choice

122

232 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.4%

114 of 122

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 141 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 137113.

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

750

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

732

97.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

18

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 Everest Community 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 Everest Community Academy reported 18 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 97.6% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Everest Community Academy from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 792 places 708 on roll 2012/13 792 places 699 on roll 2013/14 792 places 635 on roll 2014/15 750 places 585 on roll 2015/16 750 places 515 on roll 2016/17 750 places 480 on roll 2017/18 750 places 461 on roll 2018/19 750 places 466 on roll 2020/21 750 places 568 on roll 2021/22 750 places 628 on roll 2022/23 750 places 649 on roll 2023/24 750 places 694 on roll 2024/25 750 places 732 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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Hampshire

Postcode RG24 9UP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 145125).

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.