School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Giles Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 39 families who named The Giles Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 170 and 188 put it first.

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

1.11

first choices for every place available

188 first preferences for 170 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Giles Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for The Giles 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 Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire, 40.3% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 778 of 1,930 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 Lincolnshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Lincolnshire 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 Giles Academy turned first-choice families away in 3 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 The Giles 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 0.91 per place 164 first choices 180 places 2016/17 0.91 per place 212 first choices 232 places 2017/18 0.86 per place 198 first choices 230 places 2018/19 1.04 per place 187 first choices 180 places 2019/20 0.77 per place 135 first choices 176 places 2020/21 0.8 per place 102 first choices 128 places 2021/22 0.71 per place 59 first choices 83 places 2022/23 0.42 per place 62 first choices 149 places 2023/24 0.75 per place 126 first choices 169 places 2024/25 0.86 per place 148 first choices 172 places 2025/26 1.13 per place 197 first choices 174 places 2026/27 1.11 per place 188 first choices 170 places
First preferences per place at The Giles Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 188 first preferences for 170 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Giles Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 180 164 161 0.91
2016/17 232 212 209 0.91
2017/18 230 198 196 0.86
2018/19 180 187 154 1.04
2019/20 176 135 135 0.77
2020/21 128 102 102 0.8
2021/22 83 59 59 0.71
2022/23 149 62 62 0.42
2023/24 169 126 126 0.75
2024/25 172 148 148 0.86
2025/26 174 197 150 1.13
2026/27 170 188 149 1.11

Places offered

170

in 2026/27

Named first choice

188

427 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

79.3%

149 of 188

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 170 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 136282.

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

900

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

815

90.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

85

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

200

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 Giles 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 The Giles Academy reported 85 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 90.6% 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at The Giles Academy from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,100 places 1,020 on roll 2011/12 1,100 places 1,001 on roll 2012/13 1,100 places 989 on roll 2013/14 1,100 places 922 on roll 2014/15 1,100 places 935 on roll 2015/16 1,100 places 977 on roll 2016/17 1,100 places 998 on roll 2017/18 1,100 places 977 on roll 2018/19 1,100 places 969 on roll 2020/21 1,100 places 783 on roll 2021/22 1,100 places 765 on roll 2022/23 1,100 places 771 on roll 2023/24 1,100 places 837 on roll 2024/25 1,100 places 815 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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Lincolnshire

Postcode PE22 9LD. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 148185).

Other contested secondary schools in Lincolnshire

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.