School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Beamont Collegiate Academy?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 32 families who named Beamont Collegiate Academy as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 180 and 208 put it first.

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

1.16

first choices for every place available

208 first preferences for 180 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Beamont Collegiate Academy

There is no published appeal success rate for Beamont Collegiate Academy, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Warrington 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 Warrington, 28.1% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 88 of 313 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 Warrington.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Warrington 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

Beamont Collegiate Academy turned first-choice families away in 11 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 Beamont Collegiate Academy, 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 0.95 per place 180 first choices 189 places 2016/17 1.12 per place 225 first choices 200 places 2017/18 1.28 per place 232 first choices 181 places 2018/19 1.34 per place 242 first choices 180 places 2019/20 1.63 per place 294 first choices 180 places 2020/21 1.46 per place 263 first choices 180 places 2021/22 1.28 per place 231 first choices 180 places 2022/23 1.36 per place 244 first choices 180 places 2023/24 1.47 per place 265 first choices 180 places 2024/25 1.37 per place 246 first choices 179 places 2025/26 1.22 per place 219 first choices 180 places 2026/27 1.16 per place 208 first choices 180 places
First preferences per place at Beamont Collegiate Academy. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 208 first preferences for 180 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Beamont Collegiate Academy, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 189 180 180 0.95
2016/17 200 225 196 1.12
2017/18 181 232 177 1.28
2018/19 180 242 177 1.34
2019/20 180 294 179 1.63
2020/21 180 263 177 1.46
2021/22 180 231 176 1.28
2022/23 180 244 179 1.36
2023/24 180 265 177 1.47
2024/25 179 246 172 1.37
2025/26 180 219 178 1.22
2026/27 180 208 176 1.16

Places offered

180

in 2026/27

Named first choice

208

328 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

84.6%

176 of 208

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 180 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

900

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

894

99.3% of capacity

Unfilled places

6

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 Beamont Collegiate Academy 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 Beamont Collegiate Academy reported 6 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 99.3% 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, 2012/13 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Beamont Collegiate Academy from 2012/13 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 550 1,100 places on roll 12/13 14/15 16/17 18/19 21/22 23/24 24/25 2012/13 1,065 places 832 on roll 2013/14 1,065 places 804 on roll 2014/15 1,017 places 770 on roll 2015/16 900 places 767 on roll 2016/17 900 places 808 on roll 2017/18 900 places 848 on roll 2018/19 1,065 places 871 on roll 2020/21 1,065 places 908 on roll 2021/22 900 places 903 on roll 2022/23 900 places 892 on roll 2023/24 900 places 897 on roll 2024/25 900 places 894 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
Warrington

Postcode WA2 8PX. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 139196).

Other contested secondary schools in Warrington

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.