School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Hull Trinity House Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 37 families who named Hull Trinity House Academy as their first choice did not get a place: 222 put it first and 185 of them were offered one.

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

37

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

222 first preferences for 230 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Hull Trinity House Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Hull Trinity House 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 Kingston upon Hull, City 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 Kingston upon Hull, City of, 24.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 220 of 901 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 Kingston upon Hull, City of.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Kingston upon Hull, City 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

Hull Trinity House Academy turned first-choice families away in 6 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 1 of those years. In the other 5 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 Hull Trinity House 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 1.11 per place 133 first choices 120 places 2016/17 0.99 per place 119 first choices 120 places 2017/18 0.99 per place 138 first choices 140 places 2018/19 0.99 per place 138 first choices 139 places 2019/20 0.96 per place 130 first choices 135 places 2020/21 0.82 per place 114 first choices 139 places 2021/22 0.91 per place 127 first choices 140 places 2022/23 0.43 per place 101 first choices 236 places 2023/24 0.61 per place 164 first choices 270 places 2024/25 0.71 per place 163 first choices 229 places 2025/26 0.79 per place 189 first choices 239 places 2026/27 0.97 per place 222 first choices 230 places
First preferences per place at Hull Trinity House Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 222 first preferences for 230 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Hull Trinity House Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 120 133 99 1.11
2016/17 120 119 99 0.99
2017/18 140 138 112 0.99
2018/19 139 138 118 0.99
2019/20 135 130 113 0.96
2020/21 139 114 110 0.82
2021/22 140 127 115 0.91
2022/23 236 101 101 0.43
2023/24 270 164 164 0.61
2024/25 229 163 162 0.71
2025/26 239 189 183 0.79
2026/27 230 222 185 0.97

Places offered

230

in 2026/27

Named first choice

222

479 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

83.3%

185 of 222

Offers to families outside the council

3%

8 of 230 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

1,200

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

892

74.3% of capacity

Unfilled places

308

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 Hull Trinity House 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 Hull Trinity House Academy reported 308 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 74.3% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Hull Trinity House Academy from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 280 places 290 on roll 2012/13 280 places 291 on roll 2013/14 600 places 347 on roll 2014/15 600 places 396 on roll 2015/16 600 places 466 on roll 2016/17 600 places 530 on roll 2017/18 600 places 603 on roll 2018/19 600 places 611 on roll 2020/21 600 places 638 on roll 2021/22 600 places 631 on roll 2022/23 720 places 703 on roll 2023/24 1,200 places 804 on roll 2024/25 1,200 places 892 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
Kingston upon Hull, City of

Postcode HU3 1UP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138082).

Other contested secondary schools in Kingston upon Hull, City 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.