School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at All Saints Catholic College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 106 families who named All Saints Catholic College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 174 and 240 put it first.

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

1.38

first choices for every place available

240 first preferences for 174 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at All Saints Catholic College

There is no published appeal success rate for All Saints Catholic College, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea, 12.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 11 of 85 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 Kensington and Chelsea.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Kensington and Chelsea 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

All Saints Catholic College turned first-choice families away in 6 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 5 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 All Saints Catholic College, 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 0.18 per place 20 first choices 112 places 2016/17 ratio not published 13 first choices 127 places 2017/18 ratio not published 13 first choices 115 places 2018/19 0.28 per place 45 first choices 160 places 2019/20 0.53 per place 79 first choices 150 places 2020/21 0.78 per place 113 first choices 145 places 2021/22 0.8 per place 134 first choices 167 places 2022/23 1.08 per place 181 first choices 167 places 2023/24 1.08 per place 182 first choices 168 places 2024/25 2.01 per place 335 first choices 167 places 2025/26 1.49 per place 246 first choices 165 places 2026/27 1.38 per place 240 first choices 174 places
First preferences per place at All Saints Catholic College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 240 first preferences for 174 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at All Saints Catholic College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 112 20 20 0.18
2016/17 127 13 13 too small to publish
2017/18 115 13 13 too small to publish
2018/19 160 45 45 0.28
2019/20 150 79 76 0.53
2020/21 145 113 91 0.78
2021/22 167 134 122 0.8
2022/23 167 181 130 1.08
2023/24 168 182 126 1.08
2024/25 167 335 153 2.01
2025/26 165 246 127 1.49
2026/27 174 240 134 1.38

Places offered

174

in 2026/27

Named first choice

240

783 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

55.8%

134 of 240

Offers to families outside the council

80%

140 of 174 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

900

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

855

95% of capacity

Unfilled places

45

across Years 7 to 11

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 All Saints Catholic College 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 All Saints Catholic College reported 45 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 95% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at All Saints Catholic College from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 600 places 576 on roll 2010/11 600 places 599 on roll 2011/12 628 places 584 on roll 2012/13 628 places 559 on roll 2013/14 628 places 511 on roll 2014/15 628 places 474 on roll 2015/16 628 places 447 on roll 2016/17 628 places 420 on roll 2017/18 628 places 414 on roll 2018/19 628 places 463 on roll 2020/21 600 places 583 on roll 2021/22 600 places 695 on roll 2022/23 780 places 792 on roll 2023/24 780 places 818 on roll 2024/25 900 places 855 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
Voluntary aided school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Kensington and Chelsea

Postcode W10 6EL. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 100503).

Other contested secondary schools in Kensington and Chelsea

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.