School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Hyde High School?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 6 families who named Hyde High School as their first choice did not get a place: 187 put it first and 181 of them were offered one.

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

6

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

187 first preferences for 194 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Hyde High School

There is no published appeal success rate for Hyde 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 Tameside 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 Tameside, 12.9% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 82 of 635 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 Tameside.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Tameside 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

Hyde High School turned first-choice families away in 2 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 Hyde 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 0.93 per place 164 first choices 177 places 2016/17 0.8 per place 151 first choices 188 places 2017/18 1 per place 209 first choices 210 places 2018/19 0.77 per place 170 first choices 220 places 2019/20 0.85 per place 203 first choices 239 places 2020/21 0.92 per place 221 first choices 239 places 2021/22 0.91 per place 210 first choices 232 places 2022/23 0.97 per place 225 first choices 233 places 2023/24 1.05 per place 240 first choices 229 places 2024/25 1.05 per place 203 first choices 194 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 190 first choices 191 places 2026/27 0.96 per place 187 first choices 194 places
First preferences per place at Hyde High School. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 187 first preferences for 194 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Hyde 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
2015/16 177 164 164 0.93
2016/17 188 151 151 0.8
2017/18 210 209 194 1
2018/19 220 170 170 0.77
2019/20 239 203 203 0.85
2020/21 239 221 215 0.92
2021/22 232 210 210 0.91
2022/23 233 225 215 0.97
2023/24 229 240 202 1.05
2024/25 194 203 175 1.05
2025/26 191 190 179 0.99
2026/27 194 187 181 0.96

Places offered

194

in 2026/27

Named first choice

187

394 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

96.8%

181 of 187

Offers to families outside the council

1%

2 of 194 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 106268.

How close you had to live

Hyde High School filled its places in 2026, and 2,729m — 1.70 miles — is how far away the last child to be offered a place lived. They were admitted under criterion 5 , which is numbered in the school's own admission arrangements for that year.

Last place offered at

1.70 mi

2,729 metres, 2026

Under criterion

5

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.

Tameside Council, allocation statistics for 2026. 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

1,202

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,140

94.8% of capacity

Unfilled places

62

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 Hyde 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 Hyde High School reported 62 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 94.8% 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 Hyde High School from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 650 1,300 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 923 places 878 on roll 2010/11 923 places 870 on roll 2011/12 1,050 places 863 on roll 2012/13 1,050 places 893 on roll 2013/14 1,050 places 923 on roll 2014/15 1,050 places 913 on roll 2015/16 1,050 places 898 on roll 2016/17 1,050 places 935 on roll 2017/18 1,050 places 1,001 on roll 2018/19 1,080 places 1,031 on roll 2020/21 1,122 places 1,100 on roll 2021/22 1,122 places 1,142 on roll 2022/23 1,122 places 1,147 on roll 2023/24 1,122 places 1,167 on roll 2024/25 1,202 places 1,140 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
Tameside

Postcode SK14 4SP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 151627).

Other contested secondary schools in Tameside

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.