School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Brampton Manor Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 731 families who named Brampton Manor Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 434 and 1,161 put it first.

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

2.68

first choices for every place available

1,161 first preferences for 434 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Brampton Manor Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Brampton Manor 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 Newham 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 Newham, 3.8% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 24 of 626 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 Newham.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Newham 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

Brampton Manor 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 Brampton Manor Academy, 2015/16 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.9 1.8 2.6 3.5 one first preference per place 15/16 17/18 19/20 21/22 23/24 25/26 26/27 2015/16 1.92 per place 653 first choices 340 places 2016/17 2.38 per place 832 first choices 350 places 2017/18 2.53 per place 968 first choices 382 places 2018/19 2.86 per place 1,025 first choices 358 places 2019/20 3.23 per place 1,254 first choices 388 places 2020/21 3.26 per place 1,321 first choices 405 places 2021/22 2.9 per place 1,263 first choices 435 places 2022/23 2.95 per place 1,302 first choices 441 places 2023/24 3.03 per place 1,325 first choices 438 places 2024/25 2.91 per place 1,308 first choices 449 places 2025/26 2.78 per place 1,231 first choices 443 places 2026/27 2.68 per place 1,161 first choices 434 places
First preferences per place at Brampton Manor Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 1,161 first preferences for 434 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Brampton Manor Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 340 653 329 1.92
2016/17 350 832 336 2.38
2017/18 382 968 364 2.53
2018/19 358 1,025 337 2.86
2019/20 388 1,254 375 3.23
2020/21 405 1,321 393 3.26
2021/22 435 1,263 423 2.9
2022/23 441 1,302 427 2.95
2023/24 438 1,325 427 3.03
2024/25 449 1,308 442 2.91
2025/26 443 1,231 437 2.78
2026/27 434 1,161 430 2.68

Places offered

434

in 2026/27

Named first choice

1,161

2,458 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

37%

430 of 1,161

Offers to families outside the council

1%

5 of 434 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

2,200

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

2,088

94.9% of capacity

Unfilled places

112

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

350

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 Brampton Manor 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 Brampton Manor Academy reported 112 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 94.9% 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 Brampton Manor Academy from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,500 3,000 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,520 places 1,455 on roll 2011/12 1,500 places 1,470 on roll 2012/13 1,500 places 1,522 on roll 2013/14 1,650 places 1,640 on roll 2014/15 1,950 places 1,725 on roll 2015/16 1,950 places 1,855 on roll 2016/17 1,950 places 2,032 on roll 2017/18 1,800 places 2,248 on roll 2018/19 1,800 places 2,328 on roll 2020/21 2,400 places 2,744 on roll 2021/22 2,400 places 2,781 on roll 2022/23 2,550 places 2,772 on roll 2023/24 2,550 places 2,868 on roll 2024/25 2,550 places 2,901 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
Newham

Postcode E6 3SQ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136669).

Other contested secondary schools in Newham

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.