School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Redmoor Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 14 families who named Redmoor Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 218 and 230 put it first.

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

1.06

first choices for every place available

230 first preferences for 218 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Redmoor Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Redmoor Academy, 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

Redmoor Academy turned first-choice families away in 11 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 Redmoor Academy, 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 1.39 per place 252 first choices 181 places 2016/17 1.19 per place 218 first choices 183 places 2017/18 1.04 per place 190 first choices 182 places 2018/19 0.99 per place 179 first choices 181 places 2019/20 1.1 per place 196 first choices 178 places 2020/21 1.13 per place 204 first choices 181 places 2021/22 1.11 per place 202 first choices 182 places 2022/23 1.37 per place 245 first choices 179 places 2023/24 1.29 per place 234 first choices 182 places 2024/25 1.16 per place 244 first choices 210 places 2025/26 1.06 per place 228 first choices 216 places 2026/27 1.06 per place 230 first choices 218 places
First preferences per place at Redmoor Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 230 first preferences for 218 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Redmoor Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 181 252 181 1.39
2016/17 183 218 181 1.19
2017/18 182 190 179 1.04
2018/19 181 179 170 0.99
2019/20 178 196 168 1.1
2020/21 181 204 174 1.13
2021/22 182 202 163 1.11
2022/23 179 245 174 1.37
2023/24 182 234 180 1.29
2024/25 210 244 208 1.16
2025/26 216 228 213 1.06
2026/27 218 230 216 1.06

Places offered

218

in 2026/27

Named first choice

230

528 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.9%

216 of 230

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 218 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

1,150

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

950

82.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

200

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 Redmoor Academy 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 Redmoor Academy reported 200 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 82.6% 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 Redmoor Academy from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 555 places 450 on roll 2012/13 555 places 471 on roll 2013/14 555 places 517 on roll 2014/15 555 places 533 on roll 2015/16 750 places 735 on roll 2016/17 750 places 897 on roll 2017/18 925 places 911 on roll 2018/19 925 places 903 on roll 2020/21 925 places 912 on roll 2021/22 925 places 915 on roll 2022/23 925 places 919 on roll 2023/24 1,150 places 917 on roll 2024/25 1,150 places 950 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 LE10 0EP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137968).

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.