School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Green School for Girls?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 3 families who named The Green School for Girls as their first choice did not get a place: 96 put it first and 93 of them were offered one.

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

3

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

96 first preferences for 155 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Green School for Girls

There is no published appeal success rate for The Green School for Girls, 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

The Green School for Girls turned first-choice families away in 9 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 5 of those years. In the other 4 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 The Green School for Girls, 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 1.16 per place 176 first choices 152 places 2016/17 1.11 per place 201 first choices 181 places 2017/18 1.2 per place 183 first choices 153 places 2018/19 1.3 per place 200 first choices 154 places 2019/20 1.17 per place 182 first choices 155 places 2020/21 0.94 per place 144 first choices 153 places 2021/22 0.99 per place 152 first choices 154 places 2022/23 0.71 per place 107 first choices 150 places 2023/24 0.74 per place 114 first choices 154 places 2024/25 0.71 per place 109 first choices 154 places 2025/26 0.59 per place 83 first choices 140 places 2026/27 0.62 per place 96 first choices 155 places
First preferences per place at The Green School for Girls. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 96 first preferences for 155 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at The Green School for Girls, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 152 176 104 1.16
2016/17 181 201 137 1.11
2017/18 153 183 120 1.2
2018/19 154 200 111 1.3
2019/20 155 182 112 1.17
2020/21 153 144 111 0.94
2021/22 154 152 114 0.99
2022/23 150 107 96 0.71
2023/24 154 114 107 0.74
2024/25 154 109 96 0.71
2025/26 140 83 83 0.59
2026/27 155 96 93 0.62

Places offered

155

in 2026/27

Named first choice

96

432 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

96.9%

93 of 96

Offers to families outside the council

8%

12 of 155 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

742

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

764

103% of capacity

Over its capacity by

22

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

179

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 The Green School for Girls 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 The Green School for Girls 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at The Green School for Girls from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 1,198 places 870 on roll 2014/15 1,198 places 889 on roll 2015/16 940 places 861 on roll 2016/17 940 places 876 on roll 2017/18 984 places 891 on roll 2018/19 984 places 899 on roll 2020/21 984 places 940 on roll 2021/22 984 places 935 on roll 2022/23 984 places 918 on roll 2023/24 984 places 917 on roll 2024/25 921 places 906 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
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Hounslow

Postcode TW7 5BB. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139989).

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.