School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Hinde House 2-16 Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 32 families who named Hinde House 2-16 Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 209 and 234 put it first.

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

1.12

first choices for every place available

234 first preferences for 209 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Hinde House 2-16 Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Hinde House 2-16 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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield, 26.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 181 of 672 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 Sheffield.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Sheffield 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

Hinde House 2-16 Academy turned first-choice families away in 6 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 Hinde House 2-16 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 0.76 per place 144 first choices 190 places 2016/17 0.73 per place 136 first choices 186 places 2017/18 0.84 per place 149 first choices 177 places 2018/19 1.06 per place 168 first choices 159 places 2019/20 0.98 per place 181 first choices 184 places 2020/21 1.04 per place 186 first choices 179 places 2021/22 0.98 per place 185 first choices 188 places 2022/23 0.94 per place 181 first choices 193 places 2023/24 1.14 per place 222 first choices 194 places 2024/25 1.16 per place 224 first choices 193 places 2025/26 1.22 per place 257 first choices 210 places 2026/27 1.12 per place 234 first choices 209 places
First preferences per place at Hinde House 2-16 Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 234 first preferences for 209 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Hinde House 2-16 Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 190 144 144 0.76
2016/17 186 136 136 0.73
2017/18 177 149 149 0.84
2018/19 159 168 149 1.06
2019/20 184 181 173 0.98
2020/21 179 186 167 1.04
2021/22 188 185 175 0.98
2022/23 193 181 179 0.94
2023/24 194 222 184 1.14
2024/25 193 224 185 1.16
2025/26 210 257 202 1.22
2026/27 209 234 202 1.12

Places offered

209

in 2026/27

Named first choice

234

386 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

86.3%

202 of 234

Offers to families outside the council

1%

3 of 209 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

1,320

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,388

105.2% of capacity

Over its capacity by

68

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 Hinde House 2-16 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 Hinde House 2-16 Academy 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 Hinde House 2-16 Academy from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 1,320 places 1,186 on roll 2014/15 1,320 places 1,206 on roll 2015/16 1,320 places 1,221 on roll 2016/17 1,320 places 1,216 on roll 2017/18 1,320 places 1,252 on roll 2018/19 1,320 places 1,256 on roll 2020/21 1,320 places 1,266 on roll 2021/22 1,320 places 1,307 on roll 2022/23 1,320 places 1,333 on roll 2023/24 1,320 places 1,355 on roll 2024/25 1,320 places 1,388 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
Sheffield

Postcode S5 6AG. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139856).

Other contested secondary schools in Sheffield

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.