School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Weobley High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 22 families who named Weobley High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 107 and 128 put it first.

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

1.20

first choices for every place available

128 first preferences for 107 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Weobley High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Weobley High 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 Herefordshire, County of 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 Herefordshire, County of, 19.7% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 27 of 137 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 Herefordshire, County of.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Herefordshire, County of 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

Weobley High School turned first-choice families away in 10 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 9 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 Weobley High 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 1.17 per place 102 first choices 87 places 2016/17 1.17 per place 108 first choices 92 places 2017/18 1.14 per place 117 first choices 103 places 2018/19 1.04 per place 109 first choices 105 places 2019/20 1.05 per place 111 first choices 106 places 2020/21 0.93 per place 90 first choices 97 places 2021/22 1.22 per place 122 first choices 100 places 2022/23 1 per place 104 first choices 104 places 2023/24 1.2 per place 127 first choices 106 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 105 first choices 98 places 2025/26 0.91 per place 92 first choices 101 places 2026/27 1.2 per place 128 first choices 107 places
First preferences per place at Weobley High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 128 first preferences for 107 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Weobley High 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 87 102 87 1.17
2016/17 92 108 88 1.17
2017/18 103 117 101 1.14
2018/19 105 109 105 1.04
2019/20 106 111 101 1.05
2020/21 97 90 90 0.93
2021/22 100 122 97 1.22
2022/23 104 104 92 1
2023/24 106 127 105 1.2
2024/25 98 105 95 1.07
2025/26 101 92 92 0.91
2026/27 107 128 106 1.2

Places offered

107

in 2026/27

Named first choice

128

215 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

82.8%

106 of 128

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 107 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

499

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

531

106.4% of capacity

Over its capacity by

32

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 Weobley High 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 Weobley High 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 Weobley High School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 300 600 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 499 places 461 on roll 2010/11 499 places 465 on roll 2011/12 499 places 477 on roll 2012/13 499 places 479 on roll 2013/14 499 places 491 on roll 2014/15 499 places 494 on roll 2015/16 499 places 496 on roll 2016/17 499 places 500 on roll 2017/18 504 places 516 on roll 2018/19 511 places 525 on roll 2020/21 499 places 523 on roll 2021/22 499 places 533 on roll 2022/23 499 places 527 on roll 2023/24 499 places 524 on roll 2024/25 499 places 531 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
Herefordshire, County of

Postcode HR4 8ST. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 116952).

Other contested secondary schools in Herefordshire, County of

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.