School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Northfleet Technology College?

In 2026/27, Northfleet Technology College offered 169 places and 107 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.63

first choices for every place available

107 first preferences for 169 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Northfleet Technology College

There is no published appeal success rate for Northfleet Technology 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 Kent 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 Kent, 27.6% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 1,757 of 6,368 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 Kent.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Kent 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

Northfleet Technology College turned first-choice families away in 2 of the last 12 years. It has never had more first choices than places, and refused families who named it first anyway — 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 Northfleet Technology College, 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 0.96 per place 156 first choices 163 places 2016/17 0.75 per place 142 first choices 189 places 2017/18 0.79 per place 139 first choices 176 places 2018/19 0.78 per place 128 first choices 164 places 2019/20 0.67 per place 110 first choices 164 places 2020/21 0.6 per place 86 first choices 144 places 2021/22 0.46 per place 75 first choices 163 places 2022/23 0.68 per place 88 first choices 130 places 2023/24 0.59 per place 109 first choices 185 places 2024/25 0.6 per place 112 first choices 186 places 2025/26 0.76 per place 142 first choices 186 places 2026/27 0.63 per place 107 first choices 169 places
First preferences per place at Northfleet Technology College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 107 first preferences for 169 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Northfleet Technology College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 163 156 136 0.96
2016/17 189 142 131 0.75
2017/18 176 139 139 0.79
2018/19 164 128 128 0.78
2019/20 164 110 110 0.67
2020/21 144 86 86 0.6
2021/22 163 75 75 0.46
2022/23 130 88 88 0.68
2023/24 185 109 109 0.59
2024/25 186 112 112 0.6
2025/26 186 142 126 0.76
2026/27 169 107 107 0.63

Places offered

169

in 2026/27

Named first choice

107

350 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

107 of 107

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 145 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

820

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

790

96.3% of capacity

Unfilled places

30

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

205

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 Northfleet Technology 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 Northfleet Technology College reported 30 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 96.3% 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 Northfleet Technology College from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 989 places 925 on roll 2010/11 976 places 940 on roll 2011/12 978 places 977 on roll 2012/13 978 places 959 on roll 2013/14 978 places 949 on roll 2014/15 978 places 982 on roll 2015/16 978 places 979 on roll 2016/17 978 places 974 on roll 2017/18 1,020 places 961 on roll 2018/19 974 places 949 on roll 2020/21 959 places 928 on roll 2021/22 978 places 926 on roll 2022/23 978 places 902 on roll 2023/24 978 places 950 on roll 2024/25 1,025 places 956 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
Foundation school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Kent

Postcode DA11 8BG. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 118928).

Other contested secondary schools in Kent

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.