School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Loxford School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 37 families who named Loxford School as their first choice did not get a place: 173 put it first and 136 of them were offered one.

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

37

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

173 first preferences for 175 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Loxford School

There is no published appeal success rate for Loxford 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 Redbridge 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 Redbridge, 7.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 45 of 567 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 Redbridge.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Redbridge 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

Loxford School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. More families named it first than it had places in 10 of those years. In the other 2 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 Loxford 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 0.93 per place 274 first choices 296 places 2016/17 1.06 per place 313 first choices 294 places 2017/18 1.16 per place 339 first choices 293 places 2018/19 1.13 per place 337 first choices 297 places 2019/20 1.2 per place 360 first choices 299 places 2020/21 1.06 per place 309 first choices 292 places 2021/22 1.09 per place 325 first choices 299 places 2022/23 1.45 per place 240 first choices 166 places 2023/24 1.47 per place 255 first choices 173 places 2024/25 1.28 per place 222 first choices 173 places 2025/26 1.43 per place 241 first choices 169 places 2026/27 0.99 per place 173 first choices 175 places
First preferences per place at Loxford School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 173 first preferences for 175 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Loxford School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 296 274 218 0.93
2016/17 294 313 223 1.06
2017/18 293 339 247 1.16
2018/19 297 337 250 1.13
2019/20 299 360 249 1.2
2020/21 292 309 245 1.06
2021/22 299 325 249 1.09
2022/23 166 240 131 1.45
2023/24 173 255 144 1.47
2024/25 173 222 143 1.28
2025/26 169 241 145 1.43
2026/27 175 173 136 0.99

Places offered

175

in 2026/27

Named first choice

173

554 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

78.6%

136 of 173

Offers to families outside the council

2%

3 of 175 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

2,197

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

2,314

105.3% of capacity

Over its capacity by

117

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

590

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 Loxford 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 Loxford School 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Loxford School from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 1,500 3,000 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 3,000 places 2,332 on roll 2014/15 3,000 places 2,476 on roll 2015/16 3,000 places 2,638 on roll 2016/17 3,000 places 2,798 on roll 2017/18 3,000 places 2,821 on roll 2018/19 3,000 places 2,764 on roll 2020/21 2,930 places 2,754 on roll 2021/22 2,930 places 2,760 on roll 2022/23 2,930 places 2,730 on roll 2023/24 2,930 places 2,733 on roll 2024/25 2,787 places 2,754 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.

This school's admission rules have been challenged

Separately from appeals, anyone can object that a school's admission arrangements break the School Admissions Code. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator decides those objections and publishes a determination naming the school. Loxford School has been the subject of one such determination. The adjudicator did not find its arrangements at fault.

Adjudicator determinations naming Loxford School. Each links to the full determination on GOV.UK.
Determined Outcome Determination
8 April 2011 No fault found VAR501

This is not a prediction about your appeal. An objection is about the rules the school admits by; an appeal is your case about your child. No school-level appeal figures are published for any school in England, and a determination does not create any. An upheld objection also requires the school to revise its arrangements, so a finding from an earlier year describes rules that had to change — what matters for your appeal is the arrangements for the year you applied under, and whether they were applied to you correctly.

When a mistake in the process is a ground for appeal →

Office of the Schools Adjudicator, published determinations.

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
Redbridge

Postcode IG1 2UT. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 140475).

Other contested secondary schools in Redbridge

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.