School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Marden High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 63 families who named Marden High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 188 and 246 put it first.

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

1.31

first choices for every place available

246 first preferences for 188 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Marden High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Marden High School, 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 Tyneside 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 Tyneside, 23.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 78 of 333 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 Tyneside.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not North Tyneside 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

Marden High School turned first-choice families away in 6 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 Marden High School, 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 105 first choices 107 places 2016/17 0.96 per place 149 first choices 156 places 2017/18 0.95 per place 142 first choices 150 places 2018/19 0.94 per place 159 first choices 170 places 2019/20 1.41 per place 255 first choices 181 places 2020/21 1.18 per place 214 first choices 181 places 2021/22 0.93 per place 169 first choices 181 places 2022/23 0.99 per place 178 first choices 180 places 2023/24 1.05 per place 190 first choices 181 places 2024/25 1.15 per place 207 first choices 180 places 2025/26 1.13 per place 214 first choices 189 places 2026/27 1.31 per place 246 first choices 188 places
First preferences per place at Marden High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 246 first preferences for 188 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Marden High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 107 105 105 0.98
2016/17 156 149 149 0.96
2017/18 150 142 142 0.95
2018/19 170 159 159 0.94
2019/20 181 255 176 1.41
2020/21 181 214 176 1.18
2021/22 181 169 161 0.93
2022/23 180 178 164 0.99
2023/24 181 190 178 1.05
2024/25 180 207 171 1.15
2025/26 189 214 182 1.13
2026/27 188 246 183 1.31

Places offered

188

in 2026/27

Named first choice

246

433 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

74.4%

183 of 246

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 188 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

905

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

945

104.4% of capacity

Over its capacity by

40

reported as full or beyond

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 Marden High School 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 Marden High School 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Marden High School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 905 places 911 on roll 2010/11 905 places 899 on roll 2011/12 905 places 895 on roll 2012/13 905 places 877 on roll 2013/14 905 places 790 on roll 2014/15 905 places 738 on roll 2015/16 905 places 715 on roll 2016/17 905 places 705 on roll 2017/18 905 places 721 on roll 2018/19 905 places 787 on roll 2020/21 905 places 891 on roll 2021/22 905 places 903 on roll 2022/23 905 places 906 on roll 2023/24 905 places 905 on roll 2024/25 905 places 945 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
Foundation school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
North Tyneside

Postcode NE30 3RZ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 108627).

Other contested secondary schools in North Tyneside

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.