School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Oasis Academy Wintringham?

In 2026/27, Oasis Academy Wintringham offered 167 places and 159 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.95

first choices for every place available

159 first preferences for 167 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Oasis Academy Wintringham

There is no published appeal success rate for Oasis Academy Wintringham, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for North East 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 North East Lincolnshire, 40.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 38 of 94 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 North East Lincolnshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not North East 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

Oasis Academy Wintringham turned first-choice families away in 5 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 Oasis Academy Wintringham, 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 0.94 per place 161 first choices 171 places 2016/17 0.94 per place 154 first choices 164 places 2017/18 0.91 per place 126 first choices 138 places 2018/19 0.96 per place 127 first choices 132 places 2019/20 0.97 per place 193 first choices 198 places 2020/21 1.17 per place 203 first choices 173 places 2021/22 1.2 per place 206 first choices 172 places 2022/23 1.02 per place 183 first choices 179 places 2023/24 1.1 per place 190 first choices 173 places 2024/25 1.06 per place 185 first choices 175 places 2025/26 0.93 per place 145 first choices 156 places 2026/27 0.95 per place 159 first choices 167 places
First preferences per place at Oasis Academy Wintringham. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 159 first preferences for 167 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Oasis Academy Wintringham, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 171 161 161 0.94
2016/17 164 154 154 0.94
2017/18 138 126 126 0.91
2018/19 132 127 127 0.96
2019/20 198 193 192 0.97
2020/21 173 203 166 1.17
2021/22 172 206 167 1.2
2022/23 179 183 177 1.02
2023/24 173 190 163 1.1
2024/25 175 185 168 1.06
2025/26 156 145 145 0.93
2026/27 167 159 159 0.95

Places offered

167

in 2026/27

Named first choice

159

277 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

159 of 159

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 165 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

900

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

853

94.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

47

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 Wintringham 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 Wintringham reported 47 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 94.8% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Oasis Academy Wintringham from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,100 places 845 on roll 2010/11 1,100 places 866 on roll 2011/12 900 places 876 on roll 2012/13 900 places 885 on roll 2013/14 900 places 876 on roll 2014/15 900 places 845 on roll 2015/16 900 places 811 on roll 2016/17 900 places 778 on roll 2017/18 900 places 786 on roll 2018/19 900 places 809 on roll 2020/21 900 places 908 on roll 2021/22 900 places 889 on roll 2022/23 900 places 894 on roll 2023/24 900 places 870 on roll 2024/25 900 places 853 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
North East Lincolnshire

Postcode DN32 0AZ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 135209).

Other contested secondary schools in North East 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.