School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Crown Hills Community College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 113 families who named Crown Hills Community College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 306 and 383 put it first.

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

1.25

first choices for every place available

383 first preferences for 306 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Crown Hills Community College

There is no published appeal success rate for Crown Hills Community College, 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

Crown Hills Community College turned first-choice families away in 8 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 4 of those years. In the other 4 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 Crown Hills Community College, 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 0.86 per place 214 first choices 249 places 2016/17 0.83 per place 220 first choices 264 places 2017/18 0.83 per place 230 first choices 277 places 2018/19 0.91 per place 284 first choices 313 places 2019/20 0.9 per place 278 first choices 310 places 2020/21 1 per place 313 first choices 312 places 2021/22 0.96 per place 287 first choices 300 places 2022/23 0.97 per place 290 first choices 300 places 2023/24 0.91 per place 283 first choices 312 places 2024/25 1.01 per place 309 first choices 307 places 2025/26 1.07 per place 321 first choices 300 places 2026/27 1.25 per place 383 first choices 306 places
First preferences per place at Crown Hills Community College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 383 first preferences for 306 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Crown Hills Community College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 249 214 214 0.86
2016/17 264 220 220 0.83
2017/18 277 230 230 0.83
2018/19 313 284 272 0.91
2019/20 310 278 236 0.9
2020/21 312 313 269 1
2021/22 300 287 255 0.96
2022/23 300 290 251 0.97
2023/24 312 283 254 0.91
2024/25 307 309 249 1.01
2025/26 300 321 243 1.07
2026/27 306 383 270 1.25

Places offered

306

in 2026/27

Named first choice

383

871 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

70.5%

270 of 383

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 306 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

1,500

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,494

99.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

6

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 Crown Hills Community College 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 Crown Hills Community College reported 6 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.6% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Crown Hills Community College 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 1,206 places 1,205 on roll 2010/11 1,206 places 1,202 on roll 2011/12 1,206 places 1,199 on roll 2012/13 1,206 places 1,191 on roll 2013/14 1,206 places 1,201 on roll 2014/15 1,200 places 1,200 on roll 2015/16 1,200 places 1,206 on roll 2016/17 1,200 places 1,252 on roll 2017/18 1,455 places 1,354 on roll 2018/19 1,455 places 1,401 on roll 2020/21 1,500 places 1,493 on roll 2021/22 1,500 places 1,497 on roll 2022/23 1,500 places 1,492 on roll 2023/24 1,500 places 1,497 on roll 2024/25 1,500 places 1,494 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 LE5 5FT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 120277).

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.