School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Kings International College?

In 2026/27, Kings International College offered 122 places and 89 families named it as their first choice.

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

0.73

first choices for every place available

89 first preferences for 122 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Kings International College

There is no published appeal success rate for Kings International College, 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

Kings International College turned first-choice families away in 2 of the last 12 years. More families named it first than it had places in 1 of those years. In the other 1 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 Kings International College, 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 0.68 per place 84 first choices 123 places 2016/17 0.68 per place 111 first choices 163 places 2017/18 0.8 per place 104 first choices 130 places 2018/19 0.89 per place 131 first choices 147 places 2019/20 0.74 per place 122 first choices 165 places 2020/21 0.69 per place 138 first choices 200 places 2021/22 0.72 per place 109 first choices 152 places 2022/23 0.53 per place 112 first choices 213 places 2023/24 0.86 per place 163 first choices 189 places 2024/25 0.96 per place 142 first choices 148 places 2025/26 1.06 per place 153 first choices 144 places 2026/27 0.73 per place 89 first choices 122 places
First preferences per place at Kings International College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 89 first preferences for 122 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Kings International College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 123 84 84 0.68
2016/17 163 111 111 0.68
2017/18 130 104 104 0.8
2018/19 147 131 131 0.89
2019/20 165 122 122 0.74
2020/21 200 138 138 0.69
2021/22 152 109 109 0.72
2022/23 213 112 112 0.53
2023/24 189 163 157 0.86
2024/25 148 142 119 0.96
2025/26 144 153 130 1.06
2026/27 122 89 89 0.73

Places offered

122

in 2026/27

Named first choice

89

422 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

100%

89 of 89

Offers to families outside the council

18%

21 of 118 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 132268.

How close you had to live

Kings International College filled its places in 2024, and 3,561m — 2.21 miles — is how far away the last child to be offered a place lived. They were admitted under criterion 6 , which is numbered in the school's own admission arrangements for that year.

Last place offered at

2.21 mi

3,561 metres, 2024

Under criterion

6

as numbered by the school

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.

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

931

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

836

89.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

95

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 Kings International College 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 Kings International College reported 95 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 89.8% 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 Kings International College from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 500 1,000 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 931 places 674 on roll 2010/11 931 places 578 on roll 2011/12 931 places 535 on roll 2012/13 931 places 500 on roll 2013/14 931 places 488 on roll 2014/15 931 places 465 on roll 2015/16 931 places 481 on roll 2016/17 931 places 570 on roll 2017/18 931 places 598 on roll 2018/19 931 places 633 on roll 2020/21 931 places 750 on roll 2021/22 931 places 728 on roll 2022/23 931 places 785 on roll 2023/24 931 places 832 on roll 2024/25 931 places 836 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
Surrey

Postcode GU15 2PQ. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 151373).

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.