School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Ormiston Maritime Academy?

In 2026/27, Ormiston Maritime Academy offered 137 places and 120 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.

0.88

first choices for every place available

120 first preferences for 137 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Ormiston Maritime Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Ormiston Maritime 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 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

Ormiston Maritime Academy turned first-choice families away in 1 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 Ormiston Maritime Academy, 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 0.98 per place 154 first choices 157 places 2016/17 0.86 per place 111 first choices 129 places 2017/18 0.89 per place 119 first choices 133 places 2018/19 1 per place 62 first choices 62 places 2019/20 0.82 per place 79 first choices 96 places 2020/21 0.67 per place 70 first choices 105 places 2021/22 0.78 per place 75 first choices 96 places 2022/23 0.94 per place 102 first choices 108 places 2023/24 0.89 per place 141 first choices 158 places 2024/25 0.83 per place 137 first choices 165 places 2025/26 1.08 per place 164 first choices 152 places 2026/27 0.88 per place 120 first choices 137 places
First preferences per place at Ormiston Maritime Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 120 first preferences for 137 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Ormiston Maritime Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 157 154 152 0.98
2016/17 129 111 111 0.86
2017/18 133 119 119 0.89
2018/19 62 62 62 1
2019/20 96 79 79 0.82
2020/21 105 70 70 0.67
2021/22 96 75 75 0.78
2022/23 108 102 102 0.94
2023/24 158 141 141 0.89
2024/25 165 137 137 0.83
2025/26 152 164 149 1.08
2026/27 137 120 120 0.88

Places offered

137

in 2026/27

Named first choice

120

219 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

120 of 120

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 126 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

950

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

804

84.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

146

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 Ormiston Maritime 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 Ormiston Maritime Academy reported 146 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 84.6% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Ormiston Maritime Academy from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 950 places 956 on roll 2012/13 950 places 918 on roll 2013/14 950 places 898 on roll 2014/15 950 places 875 on roll 2015/16 950 places 806 on roll 2016/17 950 places 770 on roll 2017/18 950 places 697 on roll 2018/19 950 places 609 on roll 2020/21 950 places 580 on roll 2021/22 950 places 597 on roll 2022/23 950 places 638 on roll 2023/24 950 places 778 on roll 2024/25 950 places 804 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
North East Lincolnshire

Postcode DN34 5AH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137196).

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.