School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Vyne Community School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 59 families who named The Vyne Community School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 135 and 176 put it first.

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

1.30

first choices for every place available

176 first preferences for 135 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Vyne Community School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Vyne 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

The Vyne Community School turned first-choice families away in 8 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 The Vyne 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 0.87 per place 94 first choices 108 places 2016/17 0.89 per place 134 first choices 150 places 2017/18 1.25 per place 186 first choices 149 places 2018/19 1.11 per place 185 first choices 166 places 2019/20 0.89 per place 127 first choices 143 places 2020/21 1.03 per place 151 first choices 147 places 2021/22 1.2 per place 178 first choices 148 places 2022/23 0.63 per place 93 first choices 148 places 2023/24 1.12 per place 160 first choices 143 places 2024/25 1.2 per place 169 first choices 141 places 2025/26 1.49 per place 209 first choices 140 places 2026/27 1.3 per place 176 first choices 135 places
First preferences per place at The Vyne Community School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 176 first preferences for 135 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at The Vyne 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
2015/16 108 94 94 0.87
2016/17 150 134 132 0.89
2017/18 149 186 139 1.25
2018/19 166 185 158 1.11
2019/20 143 127 127 0.89
2020/21 147 151 124 1.03
2021/22 148 178 131 1.2
2022/23 148 93 93 0.63
2023/24 143 160 123 1.12
2024/25 141 169 123 1.2
2025/26 140 209 135 1.49
2026/27 135 176 117 1.3

Places offered

135

in 2026/27

Named first choice

176

446 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

66.5%

117 of 176

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 135 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

753

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

749

99.5% 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 The Vyne 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 The Vyne Community School reported 4 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.5% 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 Vyne Community School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 750 places 707 on roll 2010/11 750 places 671 on roll 2011/12 750 places 592 on roll 2012/13 750 places 513 on roll 2013/14 750 places 495 on roll 2014/15 750 places 471 on roll 2015/16 750 places 466 on roll 2016/17 750 places 565 on roll 2017/18 750 places 649 on roll 2018/19 750 places 722 on roll 2020/21 750 places 761 on roll 2021/22 750 places 765 on roll 2022/23 750 places 762 on roll 2023/24 753 places 740 on roll 2024/25 753 places 749 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 RG21 5PB. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 116440).

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.