School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Lutterworth High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 29 families who named Lutterworth High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 170 and 195 put it first.

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

1.15

first choices for every place available

195 first preferences for 170 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Lutterworth High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Lutterworth High 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

Lutterworth High School turned first-choice families away in 8 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 High School, 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 0.98 per place 150 first choices 153 places 2016/17 0.94 per place 133 first choices 142 places 2017/18 1.21 per place 181 first choices 149 places 2018/19 1.14 per place 197 first choices 173 places 2019/20 1.49 per place 254 first choices 171 places 2020/21 1.4 per place 233 first choices 167 places 2021/22 1.14 per place 193 first choices 169 places 2022/23 1.37 per place 201 first choices 147 places 2023/24 0.97 per place 164 first choices 169 places 2024/25 0.95 per place 157 first choices 165 places 2025/26 1.12 per place 195 first choices 174 places 2026/27 1.15 per place 195 first choices 170 places
First preferences per place at Lutterworth High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 195 first preferences for 170 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Lutterworth High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 153 150 149 0.98
2016/17 142 133 132 0.94
2017/18 149 181 138 1.21
2018/19 173 197 162 1.14
2019/20 171 254 169 1.49
2020/21 167 233 162 1.4
2021/22 169 193 165 1.14
2022/23 147 201 144 1.37
2023/24 169 164 162 0.97
2024/25 165 157 153 0.95
2025/26 174 195 168 1.12
2026/27 170 195 166 1.15

Places offered

170

in 2026/27

Named first choice

195

495 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

85.1%

166 of 195

Offers to families outside the council

4%

7 of 170 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

771

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

846

109.7% of capacity

Over its capacity by

75

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

0

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 High 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 Lutterworth High 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Lutterworth High School from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 771 places 728 on roll 2012/13 771 places 707 on roll 2013/14 771 places 710 on roll 2014/15 771 places 675 on roll 2015/16 771 places 768 on roll 2016/17 771 places 867 on roll 2017/18 771 places 827 on roll 2018/19 771 places 808 on roll 2020/21 771 places 825 on roll 2021/22 771 places 850 on roll 2022/23 771 places 837 on roll 2023/24 771 places 838 on roll 2024/25 771 places 846 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 LE17 4QH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137115).

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.