School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Lampton Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 62 families who named Lampton Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 234 and 254 put it first.

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

1.09

first choices for every place available

254 first preferences for 234 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Lampton Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Lampton Academy, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Hounslow 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 Hounslow, 6.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 25 of 401 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 Hounslow.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Hounslow 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

Lampton Academy turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. More families named it first than it had places in 4 of those years. In the other 8 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 Lampton Academy, 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 1.07 per place 249 first choices 233 places 2016/17 0.98 per place 224 first choices 229 places 2017/18 1.22 per place 282 first choices 231 places 2018/19 0.87 per place 199 first choices 230 places 2019/20 0.94 per place 218 first choices 232 places 2020/21 0.95 per place 220 first choices 232 places 2021/22 0.87 per place 202 first choices 232 places 2022/23 0.82 per place 192 first choices 233 places 2023/24 0.98 per place 228 first choices 232 places 2024/25 1.17 per place 273 first choices 234 places 2025/26 1 per place 229 first choices 230 places 2026/27 1.09 per place 254 first choices 234 places
First preferences per place at Lampton Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 254 first preferences for 234 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Lampton Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 233 249 169 1.07
2016/17 229 224 160 0.98
2017/18 231 282 171 1.22
2018/19 230 199 148 0.87
2019/20 232 218 170 0.94
2020/21 232 220 172 0.95
2021/22 232 202 163 0.87
2022/23 233 192 164 0.82
2023/24 232 228 157 0.98
2024/25 234 273 172 1.17
2025/26 230 229 175 1
2026/27 234 254 192 1.09

Places offered

234

in 2026/27

Named first choice

254

1,077 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

75.6%

192 of 254

Offers to families outside the council

1%

3 of 234 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

1,470

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,185

80.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

285

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

350

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 Lampton Academy 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 Lampton Academy reported 285 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 80.6% 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Lampton Academy from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 950 1,900 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,438 places 1,392 on roll 2011/12 1,526 places 1,408 on roll 2012/13 1,526 places 1,429 on roll 2013/14 1,526 places 1,460 on roll 2014/15 1,526 places 1,495 on roll 2015/16 1,500 places 1,488 on roll 2016/17 1,600 places 1,500 on roll 2017/18 1,550 places 1,525 on roll 2018/19 1,550 places 1,525 on roll 2020/21 1,550 places 1,502 on roll 2021/22 1,550 places 1,517 on roll 2022/23 1,550 places 1,531 on roll 2023/24 1,550 places 1,506 on roll 2024/25 1,820 places 1,502 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
Hounslow

Postcode TW3 4EP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136341).

Other contested secondary schools in Hounslow

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.