School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Yateley School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 14 families who named Yateley School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 233 and 232 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

first choices for every place available

232 first preferences for 233 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Yateley School

There is no published appeal success rate for Yateley 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

Yateley School turned first-choice families away in 2 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 Yateley 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 0.94 per place 246 first choices 261 places 2016/17 0.94 per place 227 first choices 242 places 2017/18 0.94 per place 164 first choices 174 places 2018/19 0.81 per place 124 first choices 153 places 2019/20 0.82 per place 178 first choices 218 places 2020/21 0.8 per place 167 first choices 210 places 2021/22 0.8 per place 184 first choices 230 places 2022/23 0.9 per place 214 first choices 239 places 2023/24 1.05 per place 245 first choices 234 places 2024/25 0.92 per place 204 first choices 222 places 2025/26 1.13 per place 266 first choices 235 places 2026/27 1 per place 232 first choices 233 places
First preferences per place at Yateley School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 232 first preferences for 233 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Yateley School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 261 246 233 0.94
2016/17 242 227 227 0.94
2017/18 174 164 164 0.94
2018/19 153 124 124 0.81
2019/20 218 178 178 0.82
2020/21 210 167 167 0.8
2021/22 230 184 184 0.8
2022/23 239 214 212 0.9
2023/24 234 245 213 1.05
2024/25 222 204 204 0.92
2025/26 235 266 217 1.13
2026/27 233 232 218 1

Places offered

233

in 2026/27

Named first choice

232

506 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

94%

218 of 232

Offers to families outside the council

7%

16 of 233 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

1,212

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,124

92.7% of capacity

Unfilled places

88

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

158

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 Yateley 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 Yateley School reported 88 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 92.7% 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 Yateley School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 850 1,700 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,462 places 1,550 on roll 2010/11 1,483 places 1,562 on roll 2011/12 1,496 places 1,618 on roll 2012/13 1,549 places 1,597 on roll 2013/14 1,508 places 1,644 on roll 2014/15 1,485 places 1,610 on roll 2015/16 1,485 places 1,553 on roll 2016/17 1,485 places 1,470 on roll 2017/18 1,508 places 1,324 on roll 2018/19 1,370 places 1,159 on roll 2020/21 1,370 places 1,147 on roll 2021/22 1,370 places 1,201 on roll 2022/23 1,370 places 1,259 on roll 2023/24 1,370 places 1,308 on roll 2024/25 1,370 places 1,328 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 GU46 6NW. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 116433).

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.