School admission appeals in Rutland
Rutland heard 0 school admission appeals in 2026, and 0 of them were upheld. The figures below come from the Department for Education and cover every state-funded school in the authority — they describe Rutland as a whole, not any single school.
Over the last three years the Rutland success rate has run 14.9 percentage points lower than the England average of 19.4%.
of appeals heard in Rutland were upheld
1 of 22 appeals heard in 2024–2026
2026 at a glance
Appeals lodged
2
by parents in Rutland
Appeals heard by a panel
0
0% of those lodged
Appeals upheld
0
rate not published
England, same year
18.5%
6,414 of 34,711 heard
What counts as grounds in Rutland
The rules are national, so this part does not vary by council: a panel works through two fixed stages, and the Rutland rate above tells you nothing about which arguments it can act on. Most appeals fail because the case put to the panel answers neither stage.
- Infant class size
- A mistake in how the decision was made
- Distance and catchment
- Siblings
- Faith and religious criteria
- Medical and social need
- Special educational needs without an EHC plan
- A late application
- In-year admissions
- Grammar schools and the 11-plus
- Sixth form places
- Twins and multiple births
Which appeals succeed in Rutland
Secondary and primary appeals are judged on different tests, and the gap between them is usually wide. Pooling three years gives a steadier picture than any single year.
Vertical marker shows the England figure for the same phase.
View as a table
| Phase | Heard | Upheld | Rate | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secondary | 18 | 1 | 5.6% | 20.1% |
| Primary | 4 | 0 | too few | 17.1% |
| Infant class size | 0 | 0 | too few | 9.4% |
Infant class size appeals are counted within the primary figures, not added to them.
Appeals in Rutland, 2016–2026
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| Year | Heard | Upheld | Rutland | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 11 | 5 | 45.5% | 22.3% |
| 2017 | 28 | 15 | 53.6% | 21.8% |
| 2018 | 6 | 2 | too few to publish | 21.8% |
| 2019 | 11 | 4 | 36.4% | 22.2% |
| 2020 | 13 | 2 | 15.4% | 21.2% |
| 2021 | 12 | 7 | 58.3% | 19% |
| 2022 | 7 | 2 | too few to publish | 20.1% |
| 2023 | 22 | 3 | 13.6% | 19.8% |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | too few to publish | 20% |
| 2025 | 16 | 0 | 0% | 19.4% |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | too few to publish | 18.5% |
How Rutland compares
Success rate ranking
145 of 151
English councils, ranked on the pooled 3-year success rate, LAs with 10+ appeals heard. Position 1 is the highest rate.
Appeal volume ranking
151 of 151
by number of appeals heard over the same period — 22 in total.
Success rates vary enormously between councils, from under 5% to over 50%. Some of that is real difference in how panels and admission authorities operate; some of it reflects which schools are oversubscribed and how many hopeless cases get lodged. A high local rate is not a prediction about your appeal.
Schools in Rutland
Rutland has 20 state-funded mainstream schools — 17 primary and 3 secondary. The largest concentrations are in Oakham, Stamford, Oakham, Rutland and Uppingham.
What we can't tell you
Nobody publishes appeal outcomes school by school — the Department for Education collects returns from individual schools but only releases them added up to council level. Any site claiming to know your school's appeal odds is guessing. What matters far more than a local average is whether your particular grounds are ones a panel is allowed to act on.
Where places are hardest to get
What is published, school by school, is how many families applied and how many got in. These are the Rutland schools with the most first choices for each place available in 2026/27 — the places where refusals, and so appeals, are concentrated. High demand does not mean an appeal is more likely to succeed; it means more families are refused.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catmose College | 227 | 286 | 1.26 |
| Uppingham Community College | 180 | 193 | 1.07 |
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catmose Primary | 30 | 43 | 1.43 |
| Ketton Church of England Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Ryhall CofE Academy | 30 | 31 | 1.03 |
Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers, school-level file, 2026/27.