School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Eden Girls' School, Slough?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 118 families who named Eden Girls' School, Slough as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 121 and 228 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Slough actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 11 years of official figures.

1.88

first choices for every place available

228 first preferences for 121 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Eden Girls' School, Slough

There is no published appeal success rate for Eden Girls' School, Slough, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Slough 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 Slough, 6.5% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 88 of 1,349 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 Slough.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Slough 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

Eden Girls' School, Slough turned first-choice families away in every one of the 11 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 Eden Girls' School, Slough, 2016/17 to 2026/27. A value above 1 means more families named the school first than there were places. 0.0 0.6 1.3 1.9 2.5 one first preference per place 16/17 18/19 20/21 22/23 24/25 26/27 2016/17 1.3 per place 127 first choices 98 places 2017/18 1.3 per place 153 first choices 118 places 2018/19 1.48 per place 175 first choices 118 places 2019/20 1.76 per place 210 first choices 119 places 2020/21 1.67 per place 205 first choices 123 places 2021/22 1.54 per place 188 first choices 122 places 2022/23 1.81 per place 215 first choices 119 places 2023/24 1.71 per place 207 first choices 121 places 2024/25 1.95 per place 228 first choices 117 places 2025/26 2.15 per place 262 first choices 122 places 2026/27 1.88 per place 228 first choices 121 places
First preferences per place at Eden Girls' School, Slough. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 228 first preferences for 121 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Eden Girls' School, Slough, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2016/17 98 127 84 1.3
2017/18 118 153 95 1.3
2018/19 118 175 108 1.48
2019/20 119 210 107 1.76
2020/21 123 205 107 1.67
2021/22 122 188 106 1.54
2022/23 119 215 107 1.81
2023/24 121 207 101 1.71
2024/25 117 228 105 1.95
2025/26 122 262 117 2.15
2026/27 121 228 110 1.88

Places offered

121

in 2026/27

Named first choice

228

404 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

48.2%

110 of 228

Offers to families outside the council

17%

20 of 121 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

601

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

619

103% of capacity

Over its capacity by

18

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

100

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 Eden Girls' School, Slough 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 Eden Girls' School, Slough 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, 2015/16 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Eden Girls' School, Slough from 2015/16 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2015/16 700 places 156 on roll 2016/17 800 places 269 on roll 2017/18 800 places 389 on roll 2018/19 800 places 495 on roll 2020/21 808 places 594 on roll 2021/22 812 places 613 on roll 2022/23 812 places 615 on roll 2023/24 812 places 620 on roll 2024/25 701 places 619 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
Free schools
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Slough

Postcode SL1 4AA. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 141970).

Other contested secondary schools in Slough

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.