School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Leeds East Academy?

In 2026/27, Leeds East Academy offered 164 places and 101 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.62

first choices for every place available

101 first preferences for 164 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Leeds East Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Leeds East 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 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

Leeds East Academy turned first-choice families away in 3 of the last 12 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Leeds East 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 0.59 per place 99 first choices 168 places 2016/17 0.73 per place 125 first choices 171 places 2017/18 0.88 per place 133 first choices 151 places 2018/19 0.97 per place 175 first choices 180 places 2019/20 0.89 per place 155 first choices 174 places 2020/21 0.89 per place 187 first choices 209 places 2021/22 1.07 per place 204 first choices 190 places 2022/23 0.96 per place 181 first choices 189 places 2023/24 1.28 per place 230 first choices 179 places 2024/25 1.06 per place 190 first choices 180 places 2025/26 0.96 per place 171 first choices 178 places 2026/27 0.62 per place 101 first choices 164 places
First preferences per place at Leeds East Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 101 first preferences for 164 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Leeds East Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 168 99 99 0.59
2016/17 171 125 125 0.73
2017/18 151 133 133 0.88
2018/19 180 175 167 0.97
2019/20 174 155 155 0.89
2020/21 209 187 187 0.89
2021/22 190 204 167 1.07
2022/23 189 181 176 0.96
2023/24 179 230 172 1.28
2024/25 180 190 164 1.06
2025/26 178 171 161 0.96
2026/27 164 101 101 0.62

Places offered

164

in 2026/27

Named first choice

101

276 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

101 of 101

Offers to families outside the council

1%

1 of 123 offers

How close you had to live

Every applicant was offered a place at Leeds East Academy in 2026. That is the most recent round Leeds has published, and it means there was no cut-off that year — nobody was turned away for living too far, so no distance exists to be measured against.

Last place offered at

No cut-off

everyone who applied was offered, 2026

This is not a line you passed or failed

A panel cannot refuse your appeal because of how far from the school you live, and cannot allow it because you live close by. No cut-off applied here in any round Leeds has published — the school offered a place to everyone who asked for one. 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.

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

1,100

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,017

92.5% of capacity

Unfilled places

83

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 Leeds East 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 Leeds East Academy reported 83 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 92.5% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Leeds East Academy from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,100 places 576 on roll 2012/13 1,025 places 572 on roll 2013/14 1,100 places 605 on roll 2014/15 1,100 places 606 on roll 2015/16 1,100 places 671 on roll 2016/17 1,100 places 722 on roll 2017/18 1,100 places 838 on roll 2018/19 1,100 places 880 on roll 2020/21 1,100 places 970 on roll 2021/22 1,100 places 1,021 on roll 2022/23 1,100 places 1,031 on roll 2023/24 1,100 places 1,040 on roll 2024/25 1,100 places 1,017 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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Leeds

Postcode LS14 6HA. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136826).

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.