School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 41 families who named Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 60 and 98 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Leicester actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 10 years of official figures.

1.63

first choices for every place available

98 first preferences for 60 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School

There is no published appeal success rate for Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England 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

Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School turned first-choice families away in 3 of the last 10 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School, 2017/18 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 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2017/18 ratio not published 19 first choices 52 places 2018/19 0.68 per place 26 first choices 38 places 2019/20 0.71 per place 40 first choices 56 places 2020/21 0.57 per place 34 first choices 60 places 2021/22 0.56 per place 32 first choices 57 places 2022/23 0.95 per place 59 first choices 62 places 2023/24 0.98 per place 87 first choices 89 places 2024/25 1.68 per place 101 first choices 60 places 2025/26 1.52 per place 99 first choices 65 places 2026/27 1.63 per place 98 first choices 60 places
First preferences per place at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 98 first preferences for 60 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2017/18 52 19 19 too small to publish
2018/19 38 26 26 0.68
2019/20 56 40 40 0.71
2020/21 60 34 34 0.57
2021/22 57 32 32 0.56
2022/23 62 59 58 0.95
2023/24 89 87 87 0.98
2024/25 60 101 60 1.68
2025/26 65 99 64 1.52
2026/27 60 98 57 1.63

Places offered

60

in 2026/27

Named first choice

98

161 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

58.2%

57 of 98

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 60 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

1,020

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

985

96.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

35

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 Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England 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 Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School reported 35 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 96.6% 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, 2016/17 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, A church of England School from 2016/17 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 16/17 17/18 18/19 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 2016/17 1,020 places 766 on roll 2017/18 1,020 places 811 on roll 2018/19 1,020 places 807 on roll 2020/21 1,020 places 822 on roll 2021/22 1,020 places 829 on roll 2022/23 1,020 places 932 on roll 2023/24 1,020 places 979 on roll 2024/25 1,020 places 985 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
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Leicester

Postcode LE2 6UA. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 144479).

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.