School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at All Saints Church of England Academy?

In 2026/27, All Saints Church of England Academy offered 130 places and 123 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.95

first choices for every place available

123 first preferences for 130 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at All Saints Church of England Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for All Saints Church of England Academy, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Plymouth 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 Plymouth, 17.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 35 of 201 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 Plymouth.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Plymouth 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

All Saints Church of England Academy turned first-choice families away in 2 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 All Saints Church of England Academy, 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 126 first choices 129 places 2016/17 0.95 per place 126 first choices 133 places 2017/18 0.93 per place 159 first choices 171 places 2018/19 0.58 per place 95 first choices 163 places 2019/20 0.68 per place 80 first choices 118 places 2020/21 0.58 per place 97 first choices 166 places 2021/22 0.95 per place 119 first choices 125 places 2022/23 0.82 per place 103 first choices 125 places 2023/24 1.2 per place 152 first choices 127 places 2024/25 1.1 per place 161 first choices 147 places 2025/26 0.84 per place 121 first choices 144 places 2026/27 0.95 per place 123 first choices 130 places
First preferences per place at All Saints Church of England Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 123 first preferences for 130 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at All Saints Church of England Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 129 126 126 0.98
2016/17 133 126 126 0.95
2017/18 171 159 159 0.93
2018/19 163 95 95 0.58
2019/20 118 80 80 0.68
2020/21 166 97 97 0.58
2021/22 125 119 117 0.95
2022/23 125 103 103 0.82
2023/24 127 152 123 1.2
2024/25 147 161 139 1.1
2025/26 144 121 121 0.84
2026/27 130 123 123 0.95

Places offered

130

in 2026/27

Named first choice

123

245 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

123 of 123

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 127 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

1,152

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

642

55.7% of capacity

Unfilled places

510

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 All Saints Church of England Academy 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 All Saints Church of England Academy reported 510 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 55.7% 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at All Saints Church of England Academy from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,152 places 1,009 on roll 2011/12 1,152 places 951 on roll 2012/13 1,152 places 894 on roll 2013/14 1,190 places 922 on roll 2014/15 1,190 places 869 on roll 2015/16 1,190 places 866 on roll 2016/17 1,190 places 821 on roll 2017/18 1,190 places 782 on roll 2018/19 1,190 places 654 on roll 2020/21 1,152 places 581 on roll 2021/22 1,152 places 592 on roll 2022/23 1,152 places 592 on roll 2023/24 1,152 places 599 on roll 2024/25 1,152 places 642 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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Plymouth

Postcode PL5 3NE. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136142).

Other contested secondary schools in Plymouth

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.