School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Lyndon School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 48 families who named Lyndon School as their first choice did not get a place: 230 put it first and 182 of them were offered one.

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

48

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

230 first preferences for 236 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Lyndon School

There is no published appeal success rate for Lyndon 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 Solihull 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 Solihull, 2.8% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 18 of 648 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 Solihull.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Solihull 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

Lyndon School turned first-choice families away in 5 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 3 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 Lyndon 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 0.6 per place 151 first choices 253 places 2016/17 0.68 per place 158 first choices 231 places 2017/18 0.48 per place 126 first choices 260 places 2018/19 0.56 per place 152 first choices 270 places 2019/20 0.49 per place 129 first choices 263 places 2020/21 0.7 per place 187 first choices 268 places 2021/22 0.6 per place 127 first choices 211 places 2022/23 0.77 per place 198 first choices 257 places 2023/24 1.06 per place 234 first choices 220 places 2024/25 1.07 per place 242 first choices 227 places 2025/26 1.14 per place 267 first choices 235 places 2026/27 0.97 per place 230 first choices 236 places
First preferences per place at Lyndon School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 230 first preferences for 236 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Lyndon School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 253 151 151 0.6
2016/17 231 158 158 0.68
2017/18 260 126 123 0.48
2018/19 270 152 147 0.56
2019/20 263 129 129 0.49
2020/21 268 187 182 0.7
2021/22 211 127 127 0.6
2022/23 257 198 172 0.77
2023/24 220 234 159 1.06
2024/25 227 242 186 1.07
2025/26 235 267 203 1.14
2026/27 236 230 182 0.97

Places offered

236

in 2026/27

Named first choice

230

750 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

79.1%

182 of 230

Offers to families outside the council

37%

87 of 236 offers

This school was issued a new Department for Education reference when it converted to an academy. Its earlier years are included above, reported at the time under reference 104114.

How close you had to live

Lyndon School filled its places in 2025, and 1,497m — 0.93 miles — is how far away the last child to be offered a place lived. They were admitted under the distance criterion.

Last place offered at

0.93 mi

1,497 metres, 2025

Under criterion

Distance

as the council described it

Range across years with a cut-off

0.93–1.12 mi

3 years, 2023 to 2025

The last place offered at Lyndon School, by admission year. Each year is a separate round with its own applicants, not a trend.
Year Distance Criterion the last place went under
2025 0.93 miles (1,497m) Distance
2024 1.12 miles (1,802m) Distance
2023 1.05 miles (1,690m) Distance

This is not a line you passed or failed

A panel cannot refuse your appeal because you live beyond this distance, and cannot allow it because you live inside. The cut-off describes how the arrangements were applied to last year's applicants. At the first stage the panel asks whether the arrangements were lawful and applied to you correctly; at the second it weighs your child's circumstances against the harm to the school of admitting another pupil. Neither question has a distance in it. Families further out than this figure win appeals, and families inside it did not need one.

It also changes every year, because it is set by who happened to apply, not by a boundary the school draws. Last year's figure does not tell you this year's.

Solihull Council, allocation statistics for 2023–2025. Source document. Published under the Open Government Licence. Cut-off distances are not a statutory publication — the School Information (England) Regulations 2008 require only the admission number and the preferences received — so a council publishes these voluntarily and many publish none at all.

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

1,380

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,181

85.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

199

across Years 7 to 11

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 Lyndon 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 Lyndon School reported 199 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 85.6% of capacity. That is worth asking about — but ask it as a question, not an assertion. A panel will want the figure for the year group in question, and the school may have a good answer about staffing, rooms or timetabling.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Lyndon School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 700 1,400 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,380 places 1,313 on roll 2010/11 1,380 places 1,336 on roll 2011/12 1,380 places 1,331 on roll 2012/13 1,380 places 1,310 on roll 2013/14 1,380 places 1,322 on roll 2014/15 1,380 places 1,311 on roll 2015/16 1,380 places 1,245 on roll 2016/17 1,380 places 1,189 on roll 2017/18 1,380 places 1,158 on roll 2018/19 1,380 places 1,130 on roll 2020/21 1,380 places 1,135 on roll 2021/22 1,380 places 1,159 on roll 2022/23 1,380 places 1,179 on roll 2023/24 1,380 places 1,158 on roll 2024/25 1,380 places 1,181 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 sponsor led
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Solihull

Postcode B92 8EJ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 142075).

Other contested secondary schools in Solihull

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.