School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Beaumont Leys School?

In 2026/27, Beaumont Leys School offered 192 places and 143 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.74

first choices for every place available

143 first preferences for 192 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Beaumont Leys School

There is no published appeal success rate for Beaumont Leys 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 Leicester 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 Leicester, 5% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 50 of 1,003 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 Leicester.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Leicester 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

Beaumont Leys School turned first-choice families away in 5 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 3 of those years. In the other 2 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 Beaumont Leys 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 1.03 per place 216 first choices 210 places 2016/17 1.03 per place 228 first choices 222 places 2017/18 0.86 per place 193 first choices 225 places 2018/19 1.1 per place 244 first choices 222 places 2019/20 0.84 per place 187 first choices 222 places 2020/21 0.92 per place 204 first choices 222 places 2021/22 0.99 per place 207 first choices 210 places 2022/23 0.86 per place 180 first choices 210 places 2023/24 0.91 per place 197 first choices 216 places 2024/25 0.79 per place 174 first choices 219 places 2025/26 0.95 per place 210 first choices 222 places 2026/27 0.74 per place 143 first choices 192 places
First preferences per place at Beaumont Leys School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 143 first preferences for 192 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Beaumont Leys School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 210 216 191 1.03
2016/17 222 228 195 1.03
2017/18 225 193 193 0.86
2018/19 222 244 210 1.1
2019/20 222 187 179 0.84
2020/21 222 204 196 0.92
2021/22 210 207 180 0.99
2022/23 210 180 175 0.86
2023/24 216 197 197 0.91
2024/25 219 174 174 0.79
2025/26 222 210 187 0.95
2026/27 192 143 143 0.74

Places offered

192

in 2026/27

Named first choice

143

350 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

143 of 143

Offers to families outside the council

4%

6 of 167 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

1,050

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,062

101.1% of capacity

Over its capacity by

12

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 Beaumont Leys 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 Beaumont Leys 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 Beaumont Leys School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,050 places 1,051 on roll 2010/11 1,050 places 1,058 on roll 2011/12 1,050 places 1,052 on roll 2012/13 1,050 places 1,040 on roll 2013/14 1,050 places 1,038 on roll 2014/15 1,050 places 1,030 on roll 2015/16 1,050 places 1,034 on roll 2016/17 1,050 places 1,066 on roll 2017/18 1,050 places 1,062 on roll 2018/19 1,050 places 1,090 on roll 2020/21 1,050 places 1,089 on roll 2021/22 1,050 places 1,078 on roll 2022/23 1,050 places 1,075 on roll 2023/24 1,050 places 1,071 on roll 2024/25 1,050 places 1,062 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
Community school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Leicester

Postcode LE4 0FL. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 120281).

Other contested secondary schools in Leicester

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.