School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 77 families who named Dixons Trinity Chapeltown as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 44 and 119 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Leeds actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 9 years of official figures.

2.70

first choices for every place available

119 first preferences for 44 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown

There is no published appeal success rate for Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, 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

Dixons Trinity Chapeltown turned first-choice families away in 8 of the last 9 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, 2018/19 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.8 1.5 2.3 3.0 one first preference per place 18/19 20/21 22/23 24/25 26/27 2018/19 0.26 per place 29 first choices 110 places 2019/20 1.01 per place 113 first choices 112 places 2020/21 1.35 per place 151 first choices 112 places 2021/22 1.3 per place 144 first choices 111 places 2022/23 1.35 per place 149 first choices 110 places 2023/24 1.34 per place 150 first choices 112 places 2024/25 2.1 per place 172 first choices 82 places 2025/26 1.95 per place 111 first choices 57 places 2026/27 2.7 per place 119 first choices 44 places
First preferences per place at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 119 first preferences for 44 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2018/19 110 29 29 0.26
2019/20 112 113 83 1.01
2020/21 112 151 92 1.35
2021/22 111 144 84 1.3
2022/23 110 149 89 1.35
2023/24 112 150 92 1.34
2024/25 82 172 70 2.1
2025/26 57 111 46 1.95
2026/27 44 119 42 2.7

Places offered

44

in 2026/27

Named first choice

119

554 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

35.3%

42 of 119

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 44 offers

How close you had to live

Dixons Trinity Chapeltown filled its places in 2026, and 369m — 0.23 miles — is how far away the last child to be offered a place lived. They were admitted under the e criterion.

Last place offered at

0.23 mi

369 metres, 2026

Under criterion

e

Any other children

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

980

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

980

100% of capacity

Unfilled places

0

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 Dixons Trinity Chapeltown 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 Dixons Trinity Chapeltown 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, 2017/18 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown from 2017/18 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 17/18 18/19 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 2017/18 420 places 30 on roll 2018/19 980 places 186 on roll 2020/21 980 places 534 on roll 2021/22 980 places 709 on roll 2022/23 980 places 887 on roll 2023/24 980 places 964 on roll 2024/25 980 places 980 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
Leeds

Postcode LS7 4AW. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 144743).

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.