School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Wymondham College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 36 families who named Wymondham College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 139 and 174 put it first.

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

1.25

first choices for every place available

174 first preferences for 139 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Wymondham College

There is no published appeal success rate for Wymondham College, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Norfolk 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 Norfolk, 43.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 244 of 565 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 Norfolk.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Norfolk 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

Wymondham College 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 Wymondham College, 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 1.64 per place 223 first choices 136 places 2016/17 1.71 per place 231 first choices 135 places 2017/18 1.75 per place 220 first choices 126 places 2018/19 1.31 per place 222 first choices 169 places 2019/20 1.31 per place 205 first choices 156 places 2020/21 1.24 per place 190 first choices 153 places 2021/22 1.23 per place 201 first choices 163 places 2022/23 1.34 per place 208 first choices 155 places 2023/24 1.31 per place 212 first choices 162 places 2024/25 1.27 per place 195 first choices 153 places 2025/26 1.19 per place 178 first choices 150 places 2026/27 1.25 per place 174 first choices 139 places
First preferences per place at Wymondham College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 174 first preferences for 139 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Wymondham College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 136 223 130 1.64
2016/17 135 231 128 1.71
2017/18 126 220 125 1.75
2018/19 169 222 158 1.31
2019/20 156 205 148 1.31
2020/21 153 190 148 1.24
2021/22 163 201 150 1.23
2022/23 155 208 144 1.34
2023/24 162 212 158 1.31
2024/25 153 195 148 1.27
2025/26 150 178 149 1.19
2026/27 139 174 138 1.25

Places offered

139

in 2026/27

Named first choice

174

455 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

79.3%

138 of 174

Offers to families outside the council

2%

3 of 139 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

975

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,014

104% of capacity

Over its capacity by

39

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

440

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 Wymondham College 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 Wymondham College 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 Wymondham College 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 1,258 places 1,240 on roll 2011/12 1,250 places 1,260 on roll 2012/13 1,270 places 1,277 on roll 2013/14 1,332 places 1,319 on roll 2014/15 1,332 places 1,306 on roll 2015/16 1,258 places 1,324 on roll 2016/17 1,258 places 1,332 on roll 2017/18 1,258 places 1,285 on roll 2018/19 1,258 places 1,295 on roll 2020/21 1,395 places 1,408 on roll 2021/22 1,415 places 1,429 on roll 2022/23 1,415 places 1,424 on roll 2023/24 1,415 places 1,434 on roll 2024/25 1,415 places 1,439 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
Norfolk

Postcode NR18 9SZ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136481).

Other contested secondary schools in Norfolk

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.