School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Oasis Academy Silvertown?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 7 families who named Oasis Academy Silvertown as their first choice did not get a place: 104 put it first and 97 of them were offered one.

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

7

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

104 first preferences for 123 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Oasis Academy Silvertown

There is no published appeal success rate for Oasis Academy Silvertown, 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

Oasis Academy Silvertown turned first-choice families away in 6 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 3 of those years. In the other 3 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 Oasis Academy Silvertown, 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 0.55 per place 44 first choices 80 places 2016/17 0.53 per place 48 first choices 90 places 2017/18 0.62 per place 42 first choices 68 places 2018/19 0.67 per place 60 first choices 90 places 2019/20 0.64 per place 57 first choices 89 places 2020/21 0.8 per place 71 first choices 89 places 2021/22 1.03 per place 89 first choices 86 places 2022/23 1.12 per place 135 first choices 121 places 2023/24 1.2 per place 146 first choices 122 places 2024/25 0.93 per place 105 first choices 113 places 2025/26 0.85 per place 105 first choices 123 places 2026/27 0.85 per place 104 first choices 123 places
First preferences per place at Oasis Academy Silvertown. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 104 first preferences for 123 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Oasis Academy Silvertown, 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 80 44 44 0.55
2016/17 90 48 48 0.53
2017/18 68 42 42 0.62
2018/19 90 60 59 0.67
2019/20 89 57 55 0.64
2020/21 89 71 57 0.8
2021/22 86 89 65 1.03
2022/23 121 135 95 1.12
2023/24 122 146 95 1.2
2024/25 113 105 77 0.93
2025/26 123 105 92 0.85
2026/27 123 104 97 0.85

Places offered

123

in 2026/27

Named first choice

104

297 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.3%

97 of 104

Offers to families outside the council

1%

1 of 123 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

600

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

508

84.7% of capacity

Unfilled places

92

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 Oasis Academy Silvertown 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 Oasis Academy Silvertown reported 92 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 84.7% 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, 2014/15 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Oasis Academy Silvertown from 2014/15 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 300 600 places on roll 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2014/15 450 places 73 on roll 2015/16 450 places 134 on roll 2016/17 450 places 181 on roll 2017/18 450 places 255 on roll 2018/19 450 places 322 on roll 2020/21 450 places 380 on roll 2021/22 450 places 413 on roll 2022/23 600 places 467 on roll 2023/24 600 places 489 on roll 2024/25 600 places 508 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
Free schools
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Newham

Postcode E16 2BB. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 141082).

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.