School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Oasis Academy South Bank?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 60 families who named Oasis Academy South Bank as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 116 and 153 put it first.

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

1.32

first choices for every place available

153 first preferences for 116 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Oasis Academy South Bank

There is no published appeal success rate for Oasis Academy South Bank, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Lambeth 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 Lambeth, 13.6% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 38 of 279 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 Lambeth.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Lambeth 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

Oasis Academy South Bank turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Oasis Academy South Bank, 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 1.12 per place 126 first choices 112 places 2016/17 1.74 per place 202 first choices 116 places 2017/18 1.7 per place 199 first choices 117 places 2018/19 1.8 per place 207 first choices 115 places 2019/20 1.73 per place 197 first choices 114 places 2020/21 1.4 per place 160 first choices 114 places 2021/22 1.47 per place 169 first choices 115 places 2022/23 1.89 per place 223 first choices 118 places 2023/24 1.46 per place 171 first choices 117 places 2024/25 1.26 per place 144 first choices 114 places 2025/26 1.09 per place 125 first choices 115 places 2026/27 1.32 per place 153 first choices 116 places
First preferences per place at Oasis Academy South Bank. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 153 first preferences for 116 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Oasis Academy South Bank, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 112 126 90 1.12
2016/17 116 202 99 1.74
2017/18 117 199 106 1.7
2018/19 115 207 98 1.8
2019/20 114 197 100 1.73
2020/21 114 160 89 1.4
2021/22 115 169 94 1.47
2022/23 118 223 107 1.89
2023/24 117 171 103 1.46
2024/25 114 144 95 1.26
2025/26 115 125 93 1.09
2026/27 116 153 93 1.32

Places offered

116

in 2026/27

Named first choice

153

563 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

60.8%

93 of 153

Offers to families outside the council

47%

55 of 116 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

600

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

585

97.5% of capacity

Unfilled places

15

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

130

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 Oasis Academy South Bank 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 Oasis Academy South Bank reported 15 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 97.5% 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Oasis Academy South Bank from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 600 places 120 on roll 2014/15 600 places 240 on roll 2015/16 600 places 357 on roll 2016/17 600 places 478 on roll 2017/18 600 places 602 on roll 2018/19 730 places 661 on roll 2020/21 730 places 719 on roll 2021/22 730 places 711 on roll 2022/23 730 places 725 on roll 2023/24 730 places 705 on roll 2024/25 730 places 701 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
Free schools
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Lambeth

Postcode SE1 7HS. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139659).

Other contested secondary schools in Lambeth

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.