School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Egglescliffe School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 48 families who named Egglescliffe School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 224 and 272 put it first.

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

1.21

first choices for every place available

272 first preferences for 224 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Egglescliffe School

There is no published appeal success rate for Egglescliffe 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 Stockton-on-Tees 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 Stockton-on-Tees, 30.6% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 44 of 144 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 Stockton-on-Tees.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Stockton-on-Tees 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

Egglescliffe School turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 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 Egglescliffe 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 1.06 per place 250 first choices 235 places 2016/17 1.12 per place 261 first choices 234 places 2017/18 1.12 per place 262 first choices 233 places 2018/19 1.22 per place 285 first choices 234 places 2019/20 1.26 per place 295 first choices 234 places 2020/21 1.23 per place 281 first choices 229 places 2021/22 1.2 per place 275 first choices 230 places 2022/23 1.06 per place 246 first choices 233 places 2023/24 1.11 per place 250 first choices 226 places 2024/25 1.17 per place 267 first choices 229 places 2025/26 1.2 per place 274 first choices 229 places 2026/27 1.21 per place 272 first choices 224 places
First preferences per place at Egglescliffe School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 272 first preferences for 224 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Egglescliffe School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 235 250 229 1.06
2016/17 234 261 233 1.12
2017/18 233 262 214 1.12
2018/19 234 285 220 1.22
2019/20 234 295 217 1.26
2020/21 229 281 221 1.23
2021/22 230 275 201 1.2
2022/23 233 246 229 1.06
2023/24 226 250 222 1.11
2024/25 229 267 227 1.17
2025/26 229 274 228 1.2
2026/27 224 272 224 1.21

Places offered

224

in 2026/27

Named first choice

272

704 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

82.4%

224 of 272

Offers to families outside the council

0%

1 of 224 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 111727.

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

1,175

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,168

99.4% of capacity

Unfilled places

7

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

400

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 Egglescliffe 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 Egglescliffe School reported 7 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.4% 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 Egglescliffe School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 800 1,600 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,434 places 1,465 on roll 2010/11 1,434 places 1,475 on roll 2011/12 1,434 places 1,463 on roll 2012/13 1,434 places 1,452 on roll 2013/14 1,434 places 1,442 on roll 2014/15 1,434 places 1,450 on roll 2015/16 1,434 places 1,508 on roll 2016/17 1,575 places 1,499 on roll 2017/18 1,575 places 1,499 on roll 2018/19 1,575 places 1,486 on roll 2020/21 1,575 places 1,528 on roll 2021/22 1,575 places 1,510 on roll 2022/23 1,575 places 1,519 on roll 2023/24 1,575 places 1,531 on roll 2024/25 1,575 places 1,509 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
Stockton-on-Tees

Postcode TS16 0LA. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 143063).

Other contested secondary schools in Stockton-on-Tees

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.