School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Brompton Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 165 families who named Brompton Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 205 and 351 put it first.

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

1.71

first choices for every place available

351 first preferences for 205 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Brompton Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Brompton 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 Medway 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 Medway, 22.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 299 of 1,307 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 Medway.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Medway 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

Brompton Academy 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 Brompton Academy, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.6 1.3 1.9 2.5 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 1.61 per place 349 first choices 217 places 2016/17 1.47 per place 339 first choices 230 places 2017/18 1.71 per place 387 first choices 226 places 2018/19 1.79 per place 409 first choices 228 places 2019/20 1.83 per place 422 first choices 231 places 2020/21 2.02 per place 463 first choices 229 places 2021/22 1.97 per place 450 first choices 229 places 2022/23 2.18 per place 475 first choices 218 places 2023/24 2.19 per place 481 first choices 220 places 2024/25 1.91 per place 439 first choices 230 places 2025/26 1.66 per place 361 first choices 217 places 2026/27 1.71 per place 351 first choices 205 places
First preferences per place at Brompton Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 351 first preferences for 205 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Brompton Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 217 349 192 1.61
2016/17 230 339 220 1.47
2017/18 226 387 210 1.71
2018/19 228 409 216 1.79
2019/20 231 422 209 1.83
2020/21 229 463 216 2.02
2021/22 229 450 211 1.97
2022/23 218 475 203 2.18
2023/24 220 481 205 2.19
2024/25 230 439 216 1.91
2025/26 217 361 194 1.66
2026/27 205 351 186 1.71

Places offered

205

in 2026/27

Named first choice

351

826 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

53%

186 of 351

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 205 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

1,100

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,162

105.6% of capacity

Over its capacity by

62

reported as full or beyond

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 Brompton 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 Brompton Academy was at or beyond its stated capacity across Years 7 to 11. A school in that position has a straightforward case that another admission would cause it difficulty, and an appeal here has to succeed on the strength of your child's own circumstances rather than on spare room.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Brompton Academy from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,400 places 976 on roll 2011/12 1,251 places 986 on roll 2012/13 1,251 places 1,040 on roll 2013/14 1,395 places 1,120 on roll 2014/15 1,395 places 1,158 on roll 2015/16 1,395 places 1,168 on roll 2016/17 1,395 places 1,222 on roll 2017/18 1,395 places 1,256 on roll 2018/19 1,395 places 1,317 on roll 2020/21 1,395 places 1,368 on roll 2021/22 1,395 places 1,396 on roll 2022/23 1,300 places 1,403 on roll 2023/24 1,300 places 1,409 on roll 2024/25 1,300 places 1,368 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. Brompton Academy has been the subject of one such determination. The adjudicator found its arrangements did not comply with the Code.

Adjudicator determinations naming Brompton Academy. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
25 July 2018 Arrangements did not comply ADA3480

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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Medway

Postcode ME7 5HT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136107).

Other contested secondary schools in Medway

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.