School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Market Bosworth School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 55 families who named The Market Bosworth School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 173 and 228 put it first.

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

1.32

first choices for every place available

228 first preferences for 173 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Market Bosworth School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Market Bosworth 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

The Market Bosworth School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at The Market Bosworth 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 1.11 per place 196 first choices 176 places 2016/17 1.04 per place 175 first choices 168 places 2017/18 1.24 per place 225 first choices 181 places 2018/19 1.09 per place 196 first choices 179 places 2019/20 1.21 per place 212 first choices 175 places 2020/21 1.15 per place 198 first choices 172 places 2021/22 1.27 per place 186 first choices 147 places 2022/23 1.03 per place 174 first choices 169 places 2023/24 1.14 per place 193 first choices 169 places 2024/25 1.15 per place 204 first choices 177 places 2025/26 1.14 per place 200 first choices 175 places 2026/27 1.32 per place 228 first choices 173 places
First preferences per place at The Market Bosworth School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 228 first preferences for 173 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Market Bosworth School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 176 196 174 1.11
2016/17 168 175 164 1.04
2017/18 181 225 177 1.24
2018/19 179 196 171 1.09
2019/20 175 212 172 1.21
2020/21 172 198 167 1.15
2021/22 147 186 143 1.27
2022/23 169 174 162 1.03
2023/24 169 193 168 1.14
2024/25 177 204 175 1.15
2025/26 175 200 168 1.14
2026/27 173 228 173 1.32

Places offered

173

in 2026/27

Named first choice

228

486 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

75.9%

173 of 228

Offers to families outside the council

6%

10 of 173 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

942

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

834

88.5% of capacity

Unfilled places

108

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 The Market Bosworth 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 The Market Bosworth School reported 108 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 88.5% 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 The Market Bosworth 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 2011/12 672 places 649 on roll 2012/13 672 places 649 on roll 2013/14 672 places 647 on roll 2014/15 695 places 748 on roll 2015/16 695 places 867 on roll 2016/17 695 places 807 on roll 2017/18 695 places 797 on roll 2018/19 760 places 815 on roll 2020/21 760 places 826 on roll 2021/22 760 places 817 on roll 2022/23 760 places 816 on roll 2023/24 760 places 818 on roll 2024/25 942 places 834 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 CV13 0JT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138108).

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.