School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Bishop Perowne CofE College?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 23 families who named Bishop Perowne CofE College as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 232 and 236 put it first.

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

1.02

first choices for every place available

236 first preferences for 232 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Bishop Perowne CofE College

There is no published appeal success rate for Bishop Perowne CofE 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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire, 19.7% of secondary appeals heard were upheld — 90 of 458 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 Worcestershire.

What a panel here can act on

These are national rules, not Worcestershire 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

Bishop Perowne CofE College turned first-choice families away in 1 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 Bishop Perowne CofE 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 0.52 per place 78 first choices 151 places 2016/17 0.62 per place 130 first choices 209 places 2017/18 0.66 per place 116 first choices 177 places 2018/19 0.58 per place 112 first choices 192 places 2019/20 0.41 per place 83 first choices 203 places 2020/21 0.57 per place 119 first choices 208 places 2021/22 0.58 per place 136 first choices 236 places 2022/23 0.56 per place 131 first choices 234 places 2023/24 0.59 per place 154 first choices 261 places 2024/25 0.72 per place 196 first choices 273 places 2025/26 0.78 per place 181 first choices 233 places 2026/27 1.02 per place 236 first choices 232 places
First preferences per place at Bishop Perowne CofE College. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 236 first preferences for 232 places.
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Places, first preferences and offers at Bishop Perowne CofE College, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 151 78 78 0.52
2016/17 209 130 130 0.62
2017/18 177 116 116 0.66
2018/19 192 112 112 0.58
2019/20 203 83 83 0.41
2020/21 208 119 119 0.57
2021/22 236 136 136 0.58
2022/23 234 131 131 0.56
2023/24 261 154 153 0.59
2024/25 273 196 196 0.72
2025/26 233 181 181 0.78
2026/27 232 236 213 1.02

Places offered

232

in 2026/27

Named first choice

236

476 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

90.3%

213 of 236

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 232 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

1,200

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,160

96.7% of capacity

Unfilled places

40

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 Bishop Perowne CofE 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 Bishop Perowne CofE College reported 40 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 96.7% 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, 2011/12 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Bishop Perowne CofE College from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 600 1,200 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,050 places 947 on roll 2012/13 1,050 places 892 on roll 2013/14 1,050 places 837 on roll 2014/15 1,050 places 769 on roll 2015/16 1,050 places 727 on roll 2016/17 1,050 places 764 on roll 2017/18 1,050 places 788 on roll 2018/19 1,050 places 822 on roll 2020/21 1,050 places 909 on roll 2021/22 1,200 places 939 on roll 2022/23 1,200 places 1,020 on roll 2023/24 1,200 places 1,107 on roll 2024/25 1,200 places 1,160 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
Faith
Entry point
Year 7
Council
Worcestershire

Postcode WR3 8LE. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 138107).

Other contested secondary schools in Worcestershire

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.