School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Garibaldi School?

In 2026/27, The Garibaldi School offered 208 places and 197 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.95

first choices for every place available

197 first preferences for 208 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Garibaldi School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Garibaldi 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 Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire, 24.7% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 340 of 1,374 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 Nottinghamshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Nottinghamshire 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

The Garibaldi 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 The Garibaldi 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 0.92 per place 134 first choices 146 places 2016/17 0.97 per place 140 first choices 144 places 2017/18 0.98 per place 161 first choices 165 places 2018/19 0.99 per place 164 first choices 165 places 2019/20 1.08 per place 185 first choices 172 places 2020/21 1.03 per place 180 first choices 175 places 2021/22 1.14 per place 200 first choices 175 places 2022/23 1.07 per place 187 first choices 175 places 2023/24 1.09 per place 208 first choices 190 places 2024/25 0.91 per place 182 first choices 199 places 2025/26 1.01 per place 209 first choices 207 places 2026/27 0.95 per place 197 first choices 208 places
First preferences per place at The Garibaldi School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 197 first preferences for 208 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Garibaldi School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 146 134 134 0.92
2016/17 144 140 140 0.97
2017/18 165 161 151 0.98
2018/19 165 164 150 0.99
2019/20 172 185 165 1.08
2020/21 175 180 164 1.03
2021/22 175 200 163 1.14
2022/23 175 187 162 1.07
2023/24 190 208 175 1.09
2024/25 199 182 181 0.91
2025/26 207 209 187 1.01
2026/27 208 197 197 0.95

Places offered

208

in 2026/27

Named first choice

197

451 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

197 of 197

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 208 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 122830.

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

1,132

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

923

81.5% of capacity

Unfilled places

209

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

70

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 The Garibaldi 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 The Garibaldi School reported 209 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 81.5% 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 The Garibaldi School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,224 places 1,100 on roll 2010/11 1,224 places 988 on roll 2011/12 1,224 places 910 on roll 2012/13 1,341 places 785 on roll 2013/14 1,118 places 727 on roll 2014/15 1,118 places 694 on roll 2015/16 1,118 places 702 on roll 2016/17 1,118 places 724 on roll 2017/18 1,024 places 780 on roll 2018/19 1,078 places 831 on roll 2020/21 1,024 places 905 on roll 2021/22 1,024 places 930 on roll 2022/23 1,024 places 952 on roll 2023/24 1,024 places 969 on roll 2024/25 1,202 places 980 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
Nottinghamshire

Postcode NG19 0JX. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 144687).

Other contested secondary schools in Nottinghamshire

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.