School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Gladesmore Community School?

In 2026/27, Gladesmore Community School offered 231 places and 181 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.78

first choices for every place available

181 first preferences for 231 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Gladesmore Community School

There is no published appeal success rate for Gladesmore 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 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

Gladesmore Community 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 Gladesmore 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 1.38 per place 326 first choices 236 places 2016/17 1.44 per place 336 first choices 234 places 2017/18 1.23 per place 284 first choices 230 places 2018/19 1.19 per place 307 first choices 259 places 2019/20 1.13 per place 296 first choices 263 places 2020/21 1.16 per place 296 first choices 255 places 2021/22 1.09 per place 287 first choices 263 places 2022/23 1.32 per place 311 first choices 236 places 2023/24 1.39 per place 309 first choices 223 places 2024/25 1.05 per place 238 first choices 226 places 2025/26 0.78 per place 184 first choices 237 places 2026/27 0.78 per place 181 first choices 231 places
First preferences per place at Gladesmore Community School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 181 first preferences for 231 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Gladesmore 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
2015/16 236 326 211 1.38
2016/17 234 336 211 1.44
2017/18 230 284 189 1.23
2018/19 259 307 222 1.19
2019/20 263 296 223 1.13
2020/21 255 296 213 1.16
2021/22 263 287 210 1.09
2022/23 236 311 214 1.32
2023/24 223 309 206 1.39
2024/25 226 238 194 1.05
2025/26 237 184 184 0.78
2026/27 231 181 181 0.78

Places offered

231

in 2026/27

Named first choice

181

518 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

181 of 181

Offers to families outside the council

19%

42 of 226 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

1,215

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,239

102% of capacity

Over its capacity by

24

reported as full or beyond

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 Gladesmore 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 Gladesmore Community School was at or beyond its stated capacity across Years 7 to 11. A school in that position has a straightforward case that another admission would cause it difficulty, and an appeal here has to succeed on the strength of your child's own circumstances rather than on spare room.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Gladesmore Community School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,215 places 1,248 on roll 2010/11 1,215 places 1,265 on roll 2011/12 1,215 places 1,277 on roll 2012/13 1,215 places 1,256 on roll 2013/14 1,215 places 1,249 on roll 2014/15 1,215 places 1,239 on roll 2015/16 1,215 places 1,238 on roll 2016/17 1,215 places 1,217 on roll 2017/18 1,215 places 1,199 on roll 2018/19 1,215 places 1,226 on roll 2020/21 1,215 places 1,273 on roll 2021/22 1,215 places 1,306 on roll 2022/23 1,215 places 1,303 on roll 2023/24 1,215 places 1,281 on roll 2024/25 1,215 places 1,239 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
Haringey

Postcode N15 6EB. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 102157).

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.