School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Malton School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 12 families who named Malton School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 155 and 165 put it first.

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

1.06

first choices for every place available

165 first preferences for 155 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Malton School

There is no published appeal success rate for Malton 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire, 21.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 87 of 411 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 Yorkshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not North Yorkshire 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

Malton School turned first-choice families away in 10 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 Malton 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 108 first choices 110 places 2016/17 0.88 per place 87 first choices 99 places 2017/18 1.01 per place 150 first choices 148 places 2018/19 1.1 per place 163 first choices 148 places 2019/20 1.36 per place 202 first choices 148 places 2020/21 1.24 per place 181 first choices 146 places 2021/22 1.24 per place 184 first choices 148 places 2022/23 1.15 per place 173 first choices 151 places 2023/24 1.19 per place 168 first choices 141 places 2024/25 1.11 per place 167 first choices 150 places 2025/26 1.19 per place 190 first choices 160 places 2026/27 1.06 per place 165 first choices 155 places
First preferences per place at Malton School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 165 first preferences for 155 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Malton School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 110 108 108 0.98
2016/17 99 87 87 0.88
2017/18 148 150 148 1.01
2018/19 148 163 147 1.1
2019/20 148 202 147 1.36
2020/21 146 181 144 1.24
2021/22 148 184 147 1.24
2022/23 151 173 147 1.15
2023/24 141 168 141 1.19
2024/25 150 167 148 1.11
2025/26 160 190 160 1.19
2026/27 155 165 153 1.06

Places offered

155

in 2026/27

Named first choice

165

280 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

92.7%

153 of 165

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 155 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 121681.

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

614

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

788

128.3% of capacity

Over its capacity by

174

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

360

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 Malton 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 Malton 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 Malton School 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 2009/10 847 places 716 on roll 2010/11 835 places 736 on roll 2011/12 835 places 737 on roll 2012/13 835 places 685 on roll 2013/14 827 places 650 on roll 2014/15 827 places 659 on roll 2015/16 827 places 702 on roll 2016/17 827 places 715 on roll 2017/18 836 places 779 on roll 2018/19 836 places 840 on roll 2020/21 858 places 921 on roll 2021/22 953 places 968 on roll 2022/23 974 places 1,014 on roll 2023/24 964 places 1,053 on roll 2024/25 974 places 1,037 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 Yorkshire

Postcode YO17 7NH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 150644).

Other contested secondary schools in North Yorkshire

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.