School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Ryedale School?

In 2026/27, Ryedale School offered 135 places and 131 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.97

first choices for every place available

131 first preferences for 135 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Ryedale School

There is no published appeal success rate for Ryedale 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

Ryedale School turned first-choice families away in 7 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 Ryedale 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 1.14 per place 134 first choices 118 places 2016/17 1.15 per place 136 first choices 118 places 2017/18 0.98 per place 127 first choices 129 places 2018/19 1.13 per place 156 first choices 138 places 2019/20 1.25 per place 184 first choices 147 places 2020/21 1.1 per place 154 first choices 140 places 2021/22 0.93 per place 124 first choices 134 places 2022/23 1.12 per place 164 first choices 146 places 2023/24 0.96 per place 113 first choices 118 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 157 first choices 147 places 2025/26 0.97 per place 133 first choices 137 places 2026/27 0.97 per place 131 first choices 135 places
First preferences per place at Ryedale School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 131 first preferences for 135 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Ryedale School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 118 134 118 1.14
2016/17 118 136 118 1.15
2017/18 129 127 127 0.98
2018/19 138 156 138 1.13
2019/20 147 184 147 1.25
2020/21 140 154 138 1.1
2021/22 134 124 124 0.93
2022/23 146 164 144 1.12
2023/24 118 113 111 0.96
2024/25 147 157 147 1.07
2025/26 137 133 132 0.97
2026/27 135 131 131 0.97

Places offered

135

in 2026/27

Named first choice

131

236 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

131 of 131

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 133 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 121665.

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

755

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

703

93.1% of capacity

Unfilled places

52

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 Ryedale 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 Ryedale School reported 52 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 93.1% 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 Ryedale School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 665 places 562 on roll 2010/11 665 places 557 on roll 2011/12 612 places 551 on roll 2012/13 612 places 570 on roll 2013/14 611 places 589 on roll 2014/15 620 places 594 on roll 2015/16 611 places 594 on roll 2016/17 612 places 627 on roll 2017/18 612 places 664 on roll 2018/19 723 places 712 on roll 2020/21 723 places 739 on roll 2021/22 723 places 729 on roll 2022/23 723 places 738 on roll 2023/24 723 places 710 on roll 2024/25 755 places 703 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 YO62 7SL. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 148377).

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.