School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Addey and Stanhope School?

In 2026/27, Addey and Stanhope School offered 85 places and 61 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.72

first choices for every place available

61 first preferences for 85 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Addey and Stanhope School

There is no published appeal success rate for Addey and Stanhope 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham, 11.3% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 15 of 133 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 Lewisham.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Lewisham 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

Addey and Stanhope School turned first-choice families away in 10 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 2 of those years. In the other 8 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 Addey and Stanhope 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 1.03 per place 117 first choices 114 places 2016/17 0.97 per place 113 first choices 117 places 2017/18 1 per place 112 first choices 112 places 2018/19 0.65 per place 74 first choices 114 places 2019/20 0.95 per place 122 first choices 128 places 2020/21 0.97 per place 108 first choices 111 places 2021/22 0.88 per place 97 first choices 110 places 2022/23 1.05 per place 117 first choices 111 places 2023/24 0.94 per place 101 first choices 107 places 2024/25 0.88 per place 98 first choices 111 places 2025/26 0.94 per place 103 first choices 109 places 2026/27 0.72 per place 61 first choices 85 places
First preferences per place at Addey and Stanhope School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 61 first preferences for 85 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Addey and Stanhope School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 114 117 78 1.03
2016/17 117 113 80 0.97
2017/18 112 112 79 1
2018/19 114 74 62 0.65
2019/20 128 122 90 0.95
2020/21 111 108 83 0.97
2021/22 110 97 77 0.88
2022/23 111 117 89 1.05
2023/24 107 101 91 0.94
2024/25 111 98 87 0.88
2025/26 109 103 90 0.94
2026/27 85 61 61 0.72

Places offered

85

in 2026/27

Named first choice

61

265 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

61 of 61

Offers to families outside the council

15%

13 of 85 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

777

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

597

76.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

180

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 Addey and Stanhope 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 Addey and Stanhope School reported 180 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 76.8% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Addey and Stanhope School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 700 places 596 on roll 2010/11 720 places 601 on roll 2011/12 720 places 591 on roll 2012/13 720 places 595 on roll 2013/14 720 places 640 on roll 2014/15 720 places 682 on roll 2015/16 862 places 691 on roll 2016/17 777 places 591 on roll 2017/18 777 places 560 on roll 2018/19 777 places 560 on roll 2020/21 777 places 585 on roll 2021/22 777 places 589 on roll 2022/23 777 places 601 on roll 2023/24 777 places 590 on roll 2024/25 777 places 597 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
Voluntary aided school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Lewisham

Postcode SE14 6TJ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 100748).

Other contested secondary schools in Lewisham

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.