School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Temple Moor High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 8 families who named Temple Moor High School as their first choice did not get a place: 225 put it first and 217 of them were offered one.

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

8

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

225 first preferences for 237 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Temple Moor High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Temple Moor High 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

Temple Moor High School turned first-choice families away in 8 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 Temple Moor High 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 1.25 per place 254 first choices 204 places 2016/17 1.08 per place 226 first choices 210 places 2017/18 1.04 per place 247 first choices 238 places 2018/19 0.88 per place 211 first choices 240 places 2019/20 0.93 per place 222 first choices 239 places 2020/21 1.09 per place 262 first choices 240 places 2021/22 1.21 per place 284 first choices 235 places 2022/23 1.09 per place 259 first choices 237 places 2023/24 1.11 per place 266 first choices 240 places 2024/25 1.09 per place 255 first choices 235 places 2025/26 0.93 per place 222 first choices 238 places 2026/27 0.95 per place 225 first choices 237 places
First preferences per place at Temple Moor High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 225 first preferences for 237 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Temple Moor High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 204 254 196 1.25
2016/17 210 226 194 1.08
2017/18 238 247 221 1.04
2018/19 240 211 208 0.88
2019/20 239 222 212 0.93
2020/21 240 262 227 1.09
2021/22 235 284 218 1.21
2022/23 237 259 231 1.09
2023/24 240 266 228 1.11
2024/25 235 255 220 1.09
2025/26 238 222 214 0.93
2026/27 237 225 217 0.95

Places offered

237

in 2026/27

Named first choice

225

584 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

96.4%

217 of 225

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 237 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 108064.

How close you had to live

Temple Moor High School filled its places in 2026, and 3,059m — 1.90 miles — is how far away the last child to be offered a place lived. They were admitted under criterion 6 — Any other children, which is numbered in the school's own admission arrangements for that year.

Last place offered at

1.90 mi

3,059 metres, 2026

Under criterion

6

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

1,157

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,159

100.2% of capacity

Over its capacity by

2

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

175

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 Temple Moor High 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 Temple Moor High 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 Temple Moor High School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,332 places 1,266 on roll 2010/11 1,292 places 1,238 on roll 2011/12 1,292 places 1,220 on roll 2012/13 1,292 places 1,227 on roll 2013/14 1,376 places 1,270 on roll 2014/15 1,376 places 1,286 on roll 2015/16 1,375 places 1,281 on roll 2016/17 1,296 places 1,259 on roll 2017/18 1,296 places 1,265 on roll 2018/19 1,296 places 1,265 on roll 2020/21 1,296 places 1,297 on roll 2021/22 1,296 places 1,281 on roll 2022/23 1,332 places 1,294 on roll 2023/24 1,332 places 1,322 on roll 2024/25 1,332 places 1,332 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
Leeds

Postcode LS15 0PT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 146247).

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.