School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Bosworth Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 45 families who named Bosworth Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 238 and 276 put it first.

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

1.16

first choices for every place available

276 first preferences for 238 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Bosworth Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Bosworth Academy, 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

Bosworth Academy turned first-choice families away in 11 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 Bosworth Academy, 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 0.87 per place 207 first choices 238 places 2016/17 1.06 per place 260 first choices 246 places 2017/18 1.17 per place 290 first choices 247 places 2018/19 1.39 per place 344 first choices 247 places 2019/20 1.28 per place 319 first choices 249 places 2020/21 1.23 per place 302 first choices 246 places 2021/22 1.35 per place 334 first choices 247 places 2022/23 1.44 per place 349 first choices 243 places 2023/24 1.31 per place 326 first choices 248 places 2024/25 1.16 per place 282 first choices 244 places 2025/26 1.13 per place 278 first choices 246 places 2026/27 1.16 per place 276 first choices 238 places
First preferences per place at Bosworth Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 276 first preferences for 238 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Bosworth Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 238 207 207 0.87
2016/17 246 260 231 1.06
2017/18 247 290 236 1.17
2018/19 247 344 243 1.39
2019/20 249 319 240 1.28
2020/21 246 302 240 1.23
2021/22 247 334 245 1.35
2022/23 243 349 235 1.44
2023/24 248 326 245 1.31
2024/25 244 282 235 1.16
2025/26 246 278 240 1.13
2026/27 238 276 231 1.16

Places offered

238

in 2026/27

Named first choice

276

781 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

83.7%

231 of 276

Offers to families outside the council

0%

1 of 238 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

1,211

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,237

102.1% of capacity

Over its capacity by

26

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

416

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 Bosworth Academy 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 Bosworth Academy 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Bosworth Academy from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 850 1,700 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,353 places 1,313 on roll 2012/13 1,353 places 1,297 on roll 2013/14 1,353 places 1,308 on roll 2014/15 1,353 places 1,163 on roll 2015/16 1,453 places 1,097 on roll 2016/17 1,453 places 1,276 on roll 2017/18 1,453 places 1,337 on roll 2018/19 1,453 places 1,498 on roll 2020/21 1,627 places 1,666 on roll 2021/22 1,627 places 1,689 on roll 2022/23 1,627 places 1,624 on roll 2023/24 1,627 places 1,604 on roll 2024/25 1,627 places 1,546 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
Leicestershire

Postcode LE9 9JL. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137969).

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.