School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 18 families who named The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton as their first choice did not get a place: 146 put it first and 128 of them were offered one.

Below: what an appeal in Wolverhampton actually involves, and how contested this school has been over 11 years of official figures.

18

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

146 first preferences for 147 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton

There is no published appeal success rate for The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton, or for any individual school in England. The Department for Education collects appeal outcomes and publishes them by council. The figures here are for Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton, 10.4% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 133 of 1,282 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 Wolverhampton.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Wolverhampton 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

The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton turned first-choice families away in 3 of the last 11 years. It has never had more first choices than places, and refused families who named it first anyway — 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 The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton, 2016/17 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 16/17 18/19 20/21 22/23 24/25 26/27 2016/17 0.48 per place 49 first choices 103 places 2017/18 0.47 per place 47 first choices 100 places 2018/19 0.55 per place 66 first choices 120 places 2019/20 0.62 per place 92 first choices 149 places 2020/21 0.51 per place 59 first choices 115 places 2021/22 0.64 per place 76 first choices 119 places 2022/23 0.76 per place 91 first choices 120 places 2023/24 0.72 per place 86 first choices 120 places 2024/25 0.72 per place 86 first choices 120 places 2025/26 0.99 per place 118 first choices 119 places 2026/27 0.99 per place 146 first choices 147 places
First preferences per place at The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 146 first preferences for 147 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2016/17 103 49 49 0.48
2017/18 100 47 47 0.47
2018/19 120 66 66 0.55
2019/20 149 92 92 0.62
2020/21 115 59 56 0.51
2021/22 119 76 76 0.64
2022/23 120 91 76 0.76
2023/24 120 86 82 0.72
2024/25 120 86 82 0.72
2025/26 119 118 91 0.99
2026/27 147 146 128 0.99

Places offered

147

in 2026/27

Named first choice

146

300 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

87.7%

128 of 146

Offers to families outside the council

3%

4 of 147 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

576

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

634

110.1% of capacity

Over its capacity by

58

reported as full or beyond

Sixth form places

140

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 The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton 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 The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton was at or beyond its stated capacity across Years 7 to 11. A school in that position has a straightforward case that another admission would cause it difficulty, and an appeal here has to succeed on the strength of your child's own circumstances rather than on spare room.

Places and pupils on roll, whole school, 2015/16 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton from 2015/16 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 450 900 places on roll 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2015/16 840 places 82 on roll 2016/17 840 places 200 on roll 2017/18 840 places 339 on roll 2018/19 840 places 467 on roll 2020/21 840 places 690 on roll 2021/22 840 places 753 on roll 2022/23 840 places 766 on roll 2023/24 840 places 796 on roll 2024/25 716 places 770 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
Free schools
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious character
No religious character
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Wolverhampton

Postcode WV4 6JP. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 142080).

Other contested secondary schools in Wolverhampton

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.