School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at All Hallows RC High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 102 families who named All Hallows RC High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 149 and 247 put it first.

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

1.66

first choices for every place available

247 first preferences for 149 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at All Hallows RC High School

There is no published appeal success rate for All Hallows RC High 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 Salford 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 Salford, 14.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 56 of 395 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 Salford.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Salford 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 Hallows RC High School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at All Hallows RC High 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 1.19 per place 140 first choices 118 places 2016/17 1.66 per place 193 first choices 116 places 2017/18 1.29 per place 160 first choices 124 places 2018/19 1.24 per place 152 first choices 123 places 2019/20 1.17 per place 143 first choices 122 places 2020/21 1.5 per place 181 first choices 121 places 2021/22 1.68 per place 203 first choices 121 places 2022/23 1.51 per place 220 first choices 146 places 2023/24 1.64 per place 235 first choices 143 places 2024/25 1.52 per place 226 first choices 149 places 2025/26 1.55 per place 234 first choices 151 places 2026/27 1.66 per place 247 first choices 149 places
First preferences per place at All Hallows RC High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 247 first preferences for 149 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at All Hallows RC High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 118 140 101 1.19
2016/17 116 193 109 1.66
2017/18 124 160 113 1.29
2018/19 123 152 96 1.24
2019/20 122 143 95 1.17
2020/21 121 181 103 1.5
2021/22 121 203 99 1.68
2022/23 146 220 129 1.51
2023/24 143 235 135 1.64
2024/25 149 226 136 1.52
2025/26 151 234 137 1.55
2026/27 149 247 145 1.66

Places offered

149

in 2026/27

Named first choice

247

519 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

58.7%

145 of 247

Offers to families outside the council

4%

6 of 149 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

705

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

733

104% of capacity

Over its capacity by

28

reported as full or beyond

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 Hallows RC High 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 All Hallows RC High 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at All Hallows RC High School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 400 800 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 600 places 578 on roll 2010/11 600 places 588 on roll 2011/12 600 places 577 on roll 2012/13 600 places 587 on roll 2013/14 600 places 574 on roll 2014/15 600 places 596 on roll 2015/16 600 places 606 on roll 2016/17 600 places 619 on roll 2017/18 600 places 618 on roll 2018/19 600 places 631 on roll 2020/21 625 places 665 on roll 2021/22 650 places 683 on roll 2022/23 650 places 711 on roll 2023/24 650 places 737 on roll 2024/25 705 places 733 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
Voluntary aided school
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Salford

Postcode M6 8AA. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 131512).

Other contested secondary schools in Salford

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.