School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Iveshead School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 16 families who named Iveshead School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 164 and 172 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Leicestershire actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 9 years of official figures.

1.05

first choices for every place available

172 first preferences for 164 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Iveshead School

There is no published appeal success rate for Iveshead 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 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

Iveshead School turned first-choice families away in 5 of the last 9 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Iveshead School, 2018/19 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 18/19 20/21 22/23 24/25 26/27 2018/19 0.99 per place 141 first choices 143 places 2019/20 1 per place 154 first choices 154 places 2020/21 1.02 per place 156 first choices 153 places 2021/22 1.05 per place 175 first choices 166 places 2022/23 1.08 per place 194 first choices 179 places 2023/24 0.94 per place 181 first choices 193 places 2024/25 1.14 per place 163 first choices 143 places 2025/26 0.96 per place 156 first choices 162 places 2026/27 1.05 per place 172 first choices 164 places
First preferences per place at Iveshead School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 172 first preferences for 164 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Iveshead School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2018/19 143 141 141 0.99
2019/20 154 154 154 1
2020/21 153 156 152 1.02
2021/22 166 175 165 1.05
2022/23 179 194 177 1.08
2023/24 193 181 181 0.94
2024/25 143 163 143 1.14
2025/26 162 156 156 0.96
2026/27 164 172 156 1.05

Places offered

164

in 2026/27

Named first choice

172

281 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

90.7%

156 of 172

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 164 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 120274.

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

780

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

921

118.1% of capacity

Over its capacity by

141

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

200

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 Iveshead 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 Iveshead School 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Iveshead School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 727 places 618 on roll 2010/11 727 places 625 on roll 2011/12 727 places 627 on roll 2012/13 727 places 583 on roll 2013/14 727 places 587 on roll 2014/15 728 places 575 on roll 2015/16 728 places 567 on roll 2016/17 728 places 538 on roll 2017/18 950 places 843 on roll 2018/19 950 places 806 on roll 2020/21 950 places 844 on roll 2021/22 950 places 895 on roll 2022/23 980 places 947 on roll 2023/24 980 places 987 on roll 2024/25 980 places 998 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 LE12 9DB. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 149271).

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.