School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Co-op Academy Bebington?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 34 families who named Co-op Academy Bebington as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 177 and 210 put it first.

Below: what an appeal in Wirral actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 7 years of official figures.

1.19

first choices for every place available

210 first preferences for 177 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Co-op Academy Bebington

There is no published appeal success rate for Co-op Academy Bebington, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Wirral 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 Wirral, 26.1% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 338 of 1,293 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 Wirral.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Wirral 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

Co-op Academy Bebington turned first-choice families away in 3 of the last 7 years. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Co-op Academy Bebington, 2020/21 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 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 25/26 26/27 2020/21 0.86 per place 182 first choices 211 places 2021/22 0.89 per place 186 first choices 209 places 2022/23 0.88 per place 177 first choices 202 places 2023/24 1.37 per place 268 first choices 195 places 2024/25 1.26 per place 235 first choices 187 places 2025/26 0.98 per place 181 first choices 184 places 2026/27 1.19 per place 210 first choices 177 places
First preferences per place at Co-op Academy Bebington. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 210 first preferences for 177 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Co-op Academy Bebington, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2020/21 211 182 180 0.86
2021/22 209 186 172 0.89
2022/23 202 177 177 0.88
2023/24 195 268 192 1.37
2024/25 187 235 182 1.26
2025/26 184 181 180 0.98
2026/27 177 210 176 1.19

Places offered

177

in 2026/27

Named first choice

210

470 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

83.8%

176 of 210

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 177 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

1,088

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

979

90% of capacity

Unfilled places

109

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

174

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 Co-op Academy Bebington 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 Co-op Academy Bebington reported 109 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 90% 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, 2018/19 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Co-op Academy Bebington from 2018/19 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 650 1,300 places on roll 18/19 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 2018/19 1,241 places 1,043 on roll 2020/21 1,262 places 1,112 on roll 2021/22 1,262 places 1,106 on roll 2022/23 1,262 places 1,110 on roll 2023/24 1,262 places 1,106 on roll 2024/25 1,262 places 1,058 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
Wirral

Postcode CH63 2PS. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 146315).

Other contested secondary schools in Wirral

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.