School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Brookvale Groby Learning Campus?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 2 families who named Brookvale Groby Learning Campus as their first choice did not get a place: 238 put it first and 236 of them were offered one.

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

2

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

238 first preferences for 249 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Brookvale Groby Learning Campus

There is no published appeal success rate for Brookvale Groby Learning Campus, 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

Brookvale Groby Learning Campus turned first-choice families away in 9 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 Brookvale Groby Learning Campus, 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 1.02 per place 243 first choices 238 places 2016/17 1.11 per place 262 first choices 237 places 2017/18 1.26 per place 299 first choices 237 places 2018/19 1.14 per place 262 first choices 230 places 2019/20 1.07 per place 267 first choices 249 places 2020/21 0.91 per place 219 first choices 241 places 2021/22 1.05 per place 248 first choices 237 places 2022/23 1.3 per place 308 first choices 237 places 2023/24 0.99 per place 233 first choices 235 places 2024/25 1.11 per place 260 first choices 235 places 2025/26 1.04 per place 257 first choices 247 places 2026/27 0.96 per place 238 first choices 249 places
First preferences per place at Brookvale Groby Learning Campus. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 238 first preferences for 249 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Brookvale Groby Learning Campus, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 238 243 230 1.02
2016/17 237 262 233 1.11
2017/18 237 299 233 1.26
2018/19 230 262 220 1.14
2019/20 249 267 226 1.07
2020/21 241 219 219 0.91
2021/22 237 248 231 1.05
2022/23 237 308 221 1.3
2023/24 235 233 228 0.99
2024/25 235 260 220 1.11
2025/26 247 257 238 1.04
2026/27 249 238 236 0.96

Places offered

249

in 2026/27

Named first choice

238

485 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

99.2%

236 of 238

Offers to families outside the council

8%

21 of 249 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

1,200

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,207

100.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

7

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

374

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 Brookvale Groby Learning Campus 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 Brookvale Groby Learning Campus 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 Brookvale Groby Learning Campus from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 800 1,600 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 664 places 636 on roll 2013/14 664 places 641 on roll 2014/15 663 places 682 on roll 2015/16 720 places 700 on roll 2016/17 720 places 733 on roll 2017/18 720 places 723 on roll 2018/19 720 places 720 on roll 2020/21 1,574 places 1,504 on roll 2021/22 1,574 places 1,456 on roll 2022/23 1,574 places 1,416 on roll 2023/24 1,574 places 1,414 on roll 2024/25 1,574 places 1,429 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 LE6 0FP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138323).

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.