School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Alexandra Park School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 287 families who named Alexandra Park School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 220 and 498 put it first.

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

2.26

first choices for every place available

498 first preferences for 220 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Alexandra Park School

There is no published appeal success rate for Alexandra Park 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 Haringey 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 Haringey, 4.8% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 12 of 250 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 Haringey.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Haringey 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

Alexandra Park School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Alexandra Park School, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.6 1.3 1.9 2.5 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 1.88 per place 381 first choices 203 places 2016/17 1.75 per place 391 first choices 224 places 2017/18 2.27 per place 488 first choices 215 places 2018/19 2.11 per place 471 first choices 223 places 2019/20 2.34 per place 517 first choices 221 places 2020/21 1.98 per place 432 first choices 218 places 2021/22 2.03 per place 442 first choices 218 places 2022/23 1.99 per place 426 first choices 214 places 2023/24 2.05 per place 448 first choices 219 places 2024/25 2.13 per place 473 first choices 222 places 2025/26 2.14 per place 474 first choices 221 places 2026/27 2.26 per place 498 first choices 220 places
First preferences per place at Alexandra Park School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 498 first preferences for 220 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Alexandra Park School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 203 381 182 1.88
2016/17 224 391 211 1.75
2017/18 215 488 201 2.27
2018/19 223 471 210 2.11
2019/20 221 517 209 2.34
2020/21 218 432 208 1.98
2021/22 218 442 199 2.03
2022/23 214 426 202 1.99
2023/24 219 448 208 2.05
2024/25 222 473 218 2.13
2025/26 221 474 217 2.14
2026/27 220 498 211 2.26

Places offered

220

in 2026/27

Named first choice

498

1,535 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

42.4%

211 of 498

Offers to families outside the council

19%

41 of 220 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

1,320

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,162

88% of capacity

Unfilled places

158

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

550

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 Alexandra Park 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 Alexandra Park School reported 158 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 88% 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 Alexandra Park School from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 950 1,900 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,330 places 1,415 on roll 2012/13 1,430 places 1,448 on roll 2013/14 1,430 places 1,430 on roll 2014/15 1,380 places 1,433 on roll 2015/16 1,380 places 1,479 on roll 2016/17 1,567 places 1,567 on roll 2017/18 1,567 places 1,612 on roll 2018/19 1,567 places 1,678 on roll 2020/21 1,760 places 1,791 on roll 2021/22 1,760 places 1,846 on roll 2022/23 1,760 places 1,805 on roll 2023/24 1,760 places 1,846 on roll 2024/25 1,870 places 1,882 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 converter
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Haringey

Postcode N11 2AZ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137531).

Other contested secondary schools in Haringey

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.