School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Lutterworth College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 42 families who named Lutterworth College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 242 and 270 put it first.

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

1.12

first choices for every place available

270 first preferences for 242 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Lutterworth College

There is no published appeal success rate for Lutterworth 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

Lutterworth College turned first-choice families away in 3 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 Lutterworth College, 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 0.94 per place 132 first choices 140 places 2016/17 0.98 per place 121 first choices 124 places 2017/18 0.82 per place 163 first choices 198 places 2018/19 0.87 per place 203 first choices 234 places 2019/20 0.85 per place 201 first choices 237 places 2020/21 0.78 per place 184 first choices 236 places 2021/22 0.9 per place 213 first choices 237 places 2022/23 0.84 per place 198 first choices 237 places 2023/24 1.08 per place 252 first choices 233 places 2024/25 0.97 per place 227 first choices 234 places 2025/26 1.02 per place 238 first choices 233 places 2026/27 1.12 per place 270 first choices 242 places
First preferences per place at Lutterworth College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 270 first preferences for 242 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Lutterworth College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 140 132 132 0.94
2016/17 124 121 118 0.98
2017/18 198 163 163 0.82
2018/19 234 203 203 0.87
2019/20 237 201 190 0.85
2020/21 236 184 183 0.78
2021/22 237 213 202 0.9
2022/23 237 198 186 0.84
2023/24 233 252 221 1.08
2024/25 234 227 224 0.97
2025/26 233 238 216 1.02
2026/27 242 270 228 1.12

Places offered

242

in 2026/27

Named first choice

270

704 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

84.4%

228 of 270

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 242 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

1,669

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,188

71.2% of capacity

Unfilled places

481

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

378

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 Lutterworth 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 Lutterworth College reported 481 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 71.2% 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, 2012/13 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Lutterworth College from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,050 2,100 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 2,047 places 1,786 on roll 2013/14 2,047 places 1,810 on roll 2014/15 2,047 places 1,742 on roll 2015/16 2,047 places 1,468 on roll 2016/17 2,047 places 1,058 on roll 2017/18 2,047 places 1,215 on roll 2018/19 2,047 places 1,282 on roll 2020/21 2,047 places 1,461 on roll 2021/22 2,047 places 1,532 on roll 2022/23 2,047 places 1,573 on roll 2023/24 2,047 places 1,553 on roll 2024/25 2,047 places 1,551 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
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Leicestershire

Postcode LE17 4EW. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138150).

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.