School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Warriner School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 36 families who named The Warriner School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 263 and 262 put it first.

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

1

first choices for every place available

262 first preferences for 263 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Warriner School

There is no published appeal success rate for The Warriner 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire, 43% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 238 of 553 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 Oxfordshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Oxfordshire 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 Warriner School turned first-choice families away in 7 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 6 of those years. In the other 1 it had places on paper and still turned first-choice families away — which happens where families who may not meet a school's criteria rank it below a safer choice — common at selective, faith and single-sex schools, and it means the first-preference count understates how wanted the school is.

First preferences per place at The Warriner 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 251 first choices 220 places 2016/17 1.15 per place 257 first choices 223 places 2017/18 0.96 per place 237 first choices 248 places 2018/19 1.19 per place 302 first choices 254 places 2019/20 1.01 per place 274 first choices 270 places 2020/21 0.96 per place 266 first choices 276 places 2021/22 1.04 per place 284 first choices 273 places 2022/23 0.99 per place 273 first choices 275 places 2023/24 1.12 per place 300 first choices 267 places 2024/25 0.9 per place 241 first choices 268 places 2025/26 0.85 per place 232 first choices 272 places 2026/27 1 per place 262 first choices 263 places
First preferences per place at The Warriner School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 262 first preferences for 263 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Warriner School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 220 251 212 1.14
2016/17 223 257 217 1.15
2017/18 248 237 217 0.96
2018/19 254 302 244 1.19
2019/20 270 274 238 1.01
2020/21 276 266 257 0.96
2021/22 273 284 246 1.04
2022/23 275 273 251 0.99
2023/24 267 300 253 1.12
2024/25 268 241 225 0.9
2025/26 272 232 226 0.85
2026/27 263 262 226 1

Places offered

263

in 2026/27

Named first choice

262

600 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

86.3%

226 of 262

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 263 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 123230.

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

1,412

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,386

98.2% of capacity

Unfilled places

26

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

160

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 Warriner 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 Warriner School reported 26 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 98.2% 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 Warriner School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 800 1,600 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,140 places 1,135 on roll 2010/11 1,155 places 1,137 on roll 2011/12 1,140 places 1,122 on roll 2012/13 1,140 places 1,123 on roll 2013/14 1,195 places 1,175 on roll 2014/15 1,335 places 1,221 on roll 2015/16 1,335 places 1,231 on roll 2016/17 1,300 places 1,290 on roll 2017/18 1,300 places 1,323 on roll 2018/19 1,450 places 1,306 on roll 2020/21 1,580 places 1,437 on roll 2021/22 1,580 places 1,495 on roll 2022/23 1,580 places 1,548 on roll 2023/24 1,580 places 1,552 on roll 2024/25 1,572 places 1,533 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
Oxfordshire

Postcode OX15 4LJ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 142218).

Other contested secondary schools in Oxfordshire

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.