School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Beauchamp College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 3 families who named Beauchamp College as their first choice did not get a place: 235 put it first and 232 of them were offered one.

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

3

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

235 first preferences for 325 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Beauchamp College

There is no published appeal success rate for Beauchamp 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire, 17.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 128 of 715 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 Leicestershire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Leicestershire 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

Beauchamp College turned first-choice families away in 8 of the last 10 years. More families named it first than it had places in 6 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 Beauchamp College, 2017/18 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.6 1.3 1.9 2.5 one first preference per place 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2017/18 1.51 per place 360 first choices 238 places 2018/19 2.19 per place 523 first choices 239 places 2019/20 1.33 per place 391 first choices 295 places 2020/21 1.16 per place 341 first choices 294 places 2021/22 1.32 per place 393 first choices 297 places 2022/23 1.31 per place 391 first choices 299 places 2023/24 0.76 per place 248 first choices 328 places 2024/25 0.86 per place 281 first choices 325 places 2025/26 0.72 per place 227 first choices 315 places 2026/27 0.72 per place 235 first choices 325 places
First preferences per place at Beauchamp College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 235 first preferences for 325 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Beauchamp College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2017/18 238 360 232 1.51
2018/19 239 523 233 2.19
2019/20 295 391 251 1.33
2020/21 294 341 262 1.16
2021/22 297 393 292 1.32
2022/23 299 391 276 1.31
2023/24 328 248 223 0.76
2024/25 325 281 249 0.86
2025/26 315 227 210 0.72
2026/27 325 235 232 0.72

Places offered

325

in 2026/27

Named first choice

235

866 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

98.7%

232 of 235

Offers to families outside the council

27%

89 of 325 offers

How places were ranked

These are the oversubscription criteria Beauchamp College published for 2025 entry, in the order the school itself sets them out. They are the rules the admission authority had to apply when more families applied than there were places — and at the first stage of an appeal, they are the document the panel is looking at.

Oversubscription criteria for Beauchamp College, 2025 entry, quoted from the school's determined admission arrangements. Sub-clauses are shown indented under the criterion they qualify.
Rank Criterion, as the school words it
1 Looked after Children and Previously Looked after Children (see note i).
2 Children who will have siblings in the college at the time when they will be admitted to the college (see note ii).
3 Children who live in the catchment area – see map available on the school/college/academy website.
4 Children living nearest to the college measured in a straight-line distance from the centre point of the property to the school’s main designated front gate, using a computerized geo coded mapping system.

The first criterion is not the school's choice. Paragraph 1.7 of the School Admissions Code 2021 requires every admission authority in England to give looked-after and previously looked-after children the highest priority, so it sits at the top of every list of this kind.

Meeting a criterion is not the same as winning an appeal

A panel does not decide your appeal by working through this list again. At the first stage it asks a narrower question: were these arrangements lawful, and were they applied to your application correctly and impartially? If they were, the panel moves to the second stage and weighs your child's circumstances against the harm to the school of admitting another pupil — and that stage has nothing to do with which criterion you fell under.

So this list is most useful for checking one thing: whether the school applied its own published rules to you properly. A criterion applied to you in a way the wording does not support is a first-stage point. Simply falling into a lower category is not — that is the system working as published.

These are the criteria determined for 2025 entry. An admission authority must re-determine its arrangements by 15 March each year, so check the school's current version before relying on any of this for a different round.

Beauchamp College's determined admission arrangements for 2025 entry, published by the admission authority under paragraph 1.47 of the School Admissions Code 2021. Source document. Quoted verbatim; wording, order and numbering are the school's own.

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

1,458

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,553

106.5% of capacity

Over its capacity by

95

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

1,049

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 Beauchamp 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 Beauchamp College 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, 2012/13 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Beauchamp College from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,300 2,600 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 2,109 places 2,048 on roll 2013/14 2,109 places 2,089 on roll 2014/15 2,109 places 2,081 on roll 2015/16 2,109 places 2,119 on roll 2016/17 2,109 places 2,264 on roll 2017/18 2,300 places 2,239 on roll 2018/19 2,300 places 2,237 on roll 2020/21 2,300 places 2,281 on roll 2021/22 2,300 places 2,215 on roll 2022/23 2,300 places 2,164 on roll 2023/24 2,300 places 2,179 on roll 2024/25 2,507 places 2,227 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. Beauchamp College has been the subject of 5 such determinations. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code in 4 of them.

Adjudicator determinations naming Beauchamp College. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
24 June 2022 Arrangements did not comply ADA3907
29 April 2022 Arrangements did not comply REF3891
25 June 2021 Arrangements did not comply ADA3764
6 August 2019 No fault found ADA3499
12 September 2018 Arrangements did not comply ADA3472

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

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
Leicestershire

Postcode LE2 5TP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139624).

Other contested secondary schools in Leicestershire

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.