School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Mangotsfield School?

In 2026/27, Mangotsfield School offered 207 places and 176 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.85

first choices for every place available

176 first preferences for 207 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Mangotsfield School

There is no published appeal success rate for Mangotsfield 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 South Gloucestershire 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 South Gloucestershire, 25.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 76 of 302 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 South Gloucestershire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not South Gloucestershire 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

Mangotsfield School turned first-choice families away in 1 of the last 12 years. It has never had more first choices than places, and refused families who named it first anyway — 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 Mangotsfield 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 0.78 per place 128 first choices 164 places 2016/17 0.83 per place 184 first choices 222 places 2017/18 0.68 per place 152 first choices 224 places 2018/19 0.81 per place 191 first choices 237 places 2019/20 0.59 per place 132 first choices 224 places 2020/21 0.64 per place 141 first choices 222 places 2021/22 0.79 per place 163 first choices 206 places 2022/23 0.8 per place 178 first choices 223 places 2023/24 0.79 per place 189 first choices 238 places 2024/25 0.84 per place 225 first choices 268 places 2025/26 0.77 per place 197 first choices 255 places 2026/27 0.85 per place 176 first choices 207 places
First preferences per place at Mangotsfield School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 176 first preferences for 207 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Mangotsfield School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 164 128 128 0.78
2016/17 222 184 184 0.83
2017/18 224 152 152 0.68
2018/19 237 191 191 0.81
2019/20 224 132 132 0.59
2020/21 222 141 141 0.64
2021/22 206 163 163 0.79
2022/23 223 178 178 0.8
2023/24 238 189 180 0.79
2024/25 268 225 198 0.84
2025/26 255 197 191 0.77
2026/27 207 176 176 0.85

Places offered

207

in 2026/27

Named first choice

176

447 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

176 of 176

Offers to families outside the council

4%

8 of 207 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 109320.

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

1,404

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,152

82.1% of capacity

Unfilled places

252

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 Mangotsfield 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 Mangotsfield School reported 252 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 82.1% 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 Mangotsfield School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,404 places 1,328 on roll 2010/11 1,404 places 1,342 on roll 2011/12 1,404 places 1,329 on roll 2012/13 1,404 places 1,319 on roll 2013/14 1,404 places 1,282 on roll 2014/15 1,404 places 1,231 on roll 2015/16 1,404 places 1,149 on roll 2016/17 1,404 places 1,140 on roll 2017/18 1,404 places 1,134 on roll 2018/19 1,404 places 1,082 on roll 2020/21 1,404 places 1,074 on roll 2021/22 1,404 places 1,051 on roll 2022/23 1,404 places 1,100 on roll 2023/24 1,404 places 1,121 on roll 2024/25 1,404 places 1,152 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
South Gloucestershire

Postcode BS16 9LH. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 142008).

Other contested secondary schools in South Gloucestershire

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.