School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Cramlington Learning Village?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 6 families who named Cramlington Learning Village as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 340 and 343 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Northumberland actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 8 years of official figures.

1.01

first choices for every place available

343 first preferences for 340 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Cramlington Learning Village

There is no published appeal success rate for Cramlington Learning Village, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Northumberland 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 Northumberland, 42.6% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 113 of 265 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 Northumberland.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Northumberland 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

Cramlington Learning Village turned first-choice families away in 3 of the last 8 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Cramlington Learning Village, 2019/20 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 19/20 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 25/26 26/27 2019/20 0.99 per place 321 first choices 323 places 2020/21 1 per place 335 first choices 335 places 2021/22 0.99 per place 345 first choices 347 places 2022/23 1.05 per place 365 first choices 348 places 2023/24 1.02 per place 394 first choices 386 places 2024/25 0.98 per place 321 first choices 328 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 319 first choices 321 places 2026/27 1.01 per place 343 first choices 340 places
First preferences per place at Cramlington Learning Village. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 343 first preferences for 340 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Cramlington Learning Village, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2019/20 323 321 320 0.99
2020/21 335 335 334 1
2021/22 347 345 344 0.99
2022/23 348 365 344 1.05
2023/24 386 394 384 1.02
2024/25 328 321 320 0.98
2025/26 321 319 316 0.99
2026/27 340 343 337 1.01

Places offered

340

in 2026/27

Named first choice

343

390 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

98.3%

337 of 343

Offers to families outside the council

7%

24 of 340 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

1,750

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,753

100.2% of capacity

Over its capacity by

3

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

618

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 Cramlington Learning Village 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 Cramlington Learning Village 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Cramlington Learning Village from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,200 2,400 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 2,238 places 2,037 on roll 2012/13 2,238 places 1,992 on roll 2013/14 2,238 places 1,941 on roll 2014/15 2,238 places 1,979 on roll 2015/16 2,238 places 1,945 on roll 2016/17 2,238 places 1,968 on roll 2017/18 2,238 places 1,978 on roll 2018/19 2,238 places 2,001 on roll 2020/21 2,238 places 2,057 on roll 2021/22 2,238 places 2,029 on roll 2022/23 2,238 places 1,984 on roll 2023/24 2,238 places 2,034 on roll 2024/25 2,368 places 2,012 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
Northumberland

Postcode NE23 6BN. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 137457).

Other contested secondary schools in Northumberland

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.