School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Carr Manor Community School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 73 families who named Carr Manor Community School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 136 and 197 put it first.

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

1.45

first choices for every place available

197 first preferences for 136 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Carr Manor Community School

There is no published appeal success rate for Carr Manor Community School, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Leeds 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 Leeds, 17.1% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 288 of 1,685 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 Leeds.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Leeds 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

Carr Manor Community School turned first-choice families away in 7 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 4 of those years. In the other 3 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 Carr Manor Community School, 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 0.67 per place 118 first choices 175 places 2016/17 0.69 per place 122 first choices 178 places 2017/18 0.55 per place 102 first choices 186 places 2018/19 0.8 per place 167 first choices 210 places 2019/20 0.61 per place 115 first choices 189 places 2020/21 0.76 per place 137 first choices 181 places 2021/22 0.87 per place 156 first choices 180 places 2022/23 0.99 per place 147 first choices 149 places 2023/24 1.17 per place 175 first choices 149 places 2024/25 1.01 per place 156 first choices 154 places 2025/26 1.12 per place 164 first choices 147 places 2026/27 1.45 per place 197 first choices 136 places
First preferences per place at Carr Manor Community School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 197 first preferences for 136 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Carr Manor Community School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 175 118 118 0.67
2016/17 178 122 117 0.69
2017/18 186 102 102 0.55
2018/19 210 167 154 0.8
2019/20 189 115 112 0.61
2020/21 181 137 121 0.76
2021/22 180 156 126 0.87
2022/23 149 147 110 0.99
2023/24 149 175 125 1.17
2024/25 154 156 126 1.01
2025/26 147 164 123 1.12
2026/27 136 197 124 1.45

Places offered

136

in 2026/27

Named first choice

197

842 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

62.9%

124 of 197

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 136 offers

How close you had to live

Carr Manor Community School filled its places in 2026, and 1,516m — 0.94 miles — is how far away the last child to be offered a place lived. They were admitted under criterion 5 — In defined catchment area, which is numbered in the school's own admission arrangements for that year.

Last place offered at

0.94 mi

1,516 metres, 2026

Under criterion

5

In defined catchment area

This is not a line you passed or failed

A panel cannot refuse your appeal because you live beyond this distance, and cannot allow it because you live inside. The cut-off describes how the arrangements were applied to last year's applicants. At the first stage the panel asks whether the arrangements were lawful and applied to you correctly; at the second it weighs your child's circumstances against the harm to the school of admitting another pupil. Neither question has a distance in it. Families further out than this figure win appeals, and families inside it did not need one.

It also changes every year, because it is set by who happened to apply, not by a boundary the school draws. Last year's figure does not tell you this year's.

Leeds Council, allocation statistics for 2026. Source document. Published under the Open Government Licence. Cut-off distances are not a statutory publication — the School Information (England) Regulations 2008 require only the admission number and the preferences received — so a council publishes these voluntarily and many publish none at all.

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

1,470

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,496

101.8% of capacity

Over its capacity by

26

reported as full or beyond

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 Carr Manor Community School 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 Carr Manor Community School 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Carr Manor Community School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 922 places 793 on roll 2010/11 1,079 places 857 on roll 2011/12 1,079 places 872 on roll 2012/13 1,172 places 906 on roll 2013/14 1,164 places 958 on roll 2014/15 1,164 places 969 on roll 2015/16 1,164 places 1,027 on roll 2016/17 1,164 places 1,085 on roll 2017/18 1,224 places 1,172 on roll 2018/19 1,374 places 1,249 on roll 2020/21 1,344 places 1,411 on roll 2021/22 1,470 places 1,479 on roll 2022/23 1,470 places 1,479 on roll 2023/24 1,470 places 1,495 on roll 2024/25 1,470 places 1,496 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
Leeds

Postcode LS17 5DJ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 108059).

Other contested secondary schools in Leeds

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.