School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Manor High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 30 families who named Manor High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 208 and 215 put it first.

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

1.03

first choices for every place available

215 first preferences for 208 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Manor High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Manor 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

Manor High School turned first-choice families away in 8 of the last 9 years. More families named it first than it had places in 5 of those years. In the other 3 it had places on paper and still turned first-choice families away — which happens where families who may not meet a school's criteria rank it below a safer choice — common at selective, faith and single-sex schools, and it means the first-preference count understates how wanted the school is.

First preferences per place at Manor High 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 0.76 per place 137 first choices 180 places 2019/20 0.7 per place 124 first choices 178 places 2020/21 1.07 per place 189 first choices 177 places 2021/22 1.28 per place 226 first choices 176 places 2022/23 1.45 per place 263 first choices 181 places 2023/24 1.22 per place 220 first choices 180 places 2024/25 0.91 per place 188 first choices 206 places 2025/26 0.93 per place 193 first choices 207 places 2026/27 1.03 per place 215 first choices 208 places
First preferences per place at Manor High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 215 first preferences for 208 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Manor 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
2018/19 180 137 102 0.76
2019/20 178 124 118 0.7
2020/21 177 189 145 1.07
2021/22 176 226 159 1.28
2022/23 181 263 173 1.45
2023/24 180 220 153 1.22
2024/25 206 188 161 0.91
2025/26 207 193 158 0.93
2026/27 208 215 185 1.03

Places offered

208

in 2026/27

Named first choice

215

721 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

86%

185 of 215

Offers to families outside the council

48%

99 of 208 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

928

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

922

99.4% of capacity

Unfilled places

6

across Years 7 to 11

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 Manor 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 Manor High School reported 6 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.4% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Manor High School from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 928 places 877 on roll 2012/13 928 places 871 on roll 2013/14 928 places 901 on roll 2014/15 928 places 875 on roll 2015/16 928 places 929 on roll 2016/17 928 places 960 on roll 2017/18 928 places 788 on roll 2018/19 928 places 813 on roll 2020/21 928 places 862 on roll 2021/22 928 places 926 on roll 2022/23 928 places 925 on roll 2023/24 928 places 923 on roll 2024/25 928 places 922 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. Manor High School has been the subject of 2 such determinations. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code in each of them.

Adjudicator determinations naming Manor High School. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
24 June 2022 Arrangements did not comply ADA3908
29 April 2022 Arrangements did not comply REF3892

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

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 LE2 4FU. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137120).

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.