School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Jubilee High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 11 families who named Jubilee High School as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 145 and 147 put it first.

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

1.01

first choices for every place available

147 first preferences for 145 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Jubilee High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Jubilee High 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 Surrey 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 Surrey, 21.2% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 215 of 1,016 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 Surrey.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Surrey 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

Jubilee High School turned first-choice families away in 1 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 Jubilee High 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 0.51 per place 89 first choices 176 places 2016/17 0.84 per place 133 first choices 158 places 2017/18 0.76 per place 118 first choices 155 places 2018/19 0.8 per place 130 first choices 162 places 2019/20 0.76 per place 117 first choices 154 places 2020/21 0.46 per place 65 first choices 140 places 2021/22 0.43 per place 63 first choices 148 places 2022/23 0.55 per place 90 first choices 165 places 2023/24 0.65 per place 110 first choices 168 places 2024/25 0.86 per place 132 first choices 154 places 2025/26 0.97 per place 139 first choices 143 places 2026/27 1.01 per place 147 first choices 145 places
First preferences per place at Jubilee High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 147 first preferences for 145 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Jubilee High School, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 176 89 89 0.51
2016/17 158 133 133 0.84
2017/18 155 118 117 0.76
2018/19 162 130 130 0.8
2019/20 154 117 117 0.76
2020/21 140 65 65 0.46
2021/22 148 63 63 0.43
2022/23 165 90 90 0.55
2023/24 168 110 110 0.65
2024/25 154 132 132 0.86
2025/26 143 139 135 0.97
2026/27 145 147 136 1.01

Places offered

145

in 2026/27

Named first choice

147

345 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

92.5%

136 of 147

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 145 offers

How close you had to live

Every applicant was offered a place at Jubilee High School in 2024. That is the most recent round Surrey has published, and it means there was no cut-off that year — nobody was turned away for living too far, so no distance exists to be measured against.

Last place offered at

No cut-off

everyone who applied was offered, 2024

This is not a line you passed or failed

A panel cannot refuse your appeal because of how far from the school you live, and cannot allow it because you live close by. No cut-off applied here in any round Surrey has published — the school offered a place to everyone who asked for one. 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.

Surrey Council, allocation statistics for 2024. 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

810

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

661

81.6% of capacity

Unfilled places

149

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 Jubilee High 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 Jubilee High School reported 149 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 81.6% 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, 2013/14 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Jubilee High School from 2013/14 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2013/14 805 places 653 on roll 2014/15 805 places 648 on roll 2015/16 805 places 634 on roll 2016/17 805 places 658 on roll 2017/18 805 places 648 on roll 2018/19 805 places 641 on roll 2020/21 810 places 650 on roll 2021/22 810 places 590 on roll 2022/23 810 places 665 on roll 2023/24 810 places 674 on roll 2024/25 810 places 661 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
Surrey

Postcode KT15 1TE. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139948).

Other contested secondary schools in Surrey

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.