School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Landau Forte Academy, Amington?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 14 families who named Landau Forte Academy, Amington as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 208 and 211 put it first.

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

1.01

first choices for every place available

211 first preferences for 208 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Landau Forte Academy, Amington

There is no published appeal success rate for Landau Forte Academy, Amington, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire, 20.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 157 of 752 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 Staffordshire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Staffordshire 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

Landau Forte Academy, Amington 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 Landau Forte Academy, Amington, 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 0.97 per place 150 first choices 155 places 2016/17 0.85 per place 127 first choices 150 places 2017/18 0.88 per place 152 first choices 173 places 2018/19 1.1 per place 211 first choices 192 places 2019/20 1.31 per place 261 first choices 199 places 2020/21 1.24 per place 237 first choices 191 places 2021/22 1.05 per place 202 first choices 192 places 2022/23 1.02 per place 195 first choices 191 places 2023/24 0.98 per place 191 first choices 195 places 2024/25 0.98 per place 183 first choices 187 places 2025/26 0.89 per place 141 first choices 158 places 2026/27 1.01 per place 211 first choices 208 places
First preferences per place at Landau Forte Academy, Amington. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 211 first preferences for 208 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Landau Forte Academy, Amington, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 155 150 150 0.97
2016/17 150 127 127 0.85
2017/18 173 152 152 0.88
2018/19 192 211 183 1.1
2019/20 199 261 188 1.31
2020/21 191 237 184 1.24
2021/22 192 202 180 1.05
2022/23 191 195 186 1.02
2023/24 195 191 190 0.98
2024/25 187 183 177 0.98
2025/26 158 141 141 0.89
2026/27 208 211 197 1.01

Places offered

208

in 2026/27

Named first choice

211

321 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

93.4%

197 of 211

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 208 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

960

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

924

96.2% of capacity

Unfilled places

36

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 Landau Forte Academy, Amington 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 Landau Forte Academy, Amington reported 36 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 96.2% 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, 2010/11 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Landau Forte Academy, Amington from 2010/11 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 950 1,900 places on roll 10/11 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2010/11 1,820 places 961 on roll 2011/12 960 places 903 on roll 2012/13 960 places 1,394 on roll 2013/14 1,820 places 1,396 on roll 2014/15 1,820 places 819 on roll 2015/16 1,820 places 813 on roll 2016/17 1,820 places 796 on roll 2017/18 1,820 places 773 on roll 2018/19 1,820 places 831 on roll 2020/21 960 places 906 on roll 2021/22 960 places 938 on roll 2022/23 960 places 941 on roll 2023/24 960 places 932 on roll 2024/25 960 places 924 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
Staffordshire

Postcode B77 4FF. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136136).

Other contested secondary schools in Staffordshire

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.