School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Haybridge High School and Sixth Form?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 7 families who named Haybridge High School and Sixth Form as their first choice did not get a place: 185 put it first and 178 of them were offered one.

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

7

first-choice families refused a place in 2026/27

185 first preferences for 205 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Haybridge High School and Sixth Form

There is no published appeal success rate for Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, 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

Haybridge High School and Sixth Form turned first-choice families away in 8 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 Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, 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 1.12 per place 183 first choices 164 places 2016/17 1.06 per place 199 first choices 187 places 2017/18 1.07 per place 203 first choices 189 places 2018/19 1.04 per place 197 first choices 189 places 2019/20 1.18 per place 223 first choices 189 places 2020/21 1.11 per place 210 first choices 189 places 2021/22 1.02 per place 191 first choices 188 places 2022/23 0.91 per place 187 first choices 206 places 2023/24 0.93 per place 195 first choices 209 places 2024/25 0.84 per place 171 first choices 203 places 2025/26 1.14 per place 236 first choices 207 places 2026/27 0.9 per place 185 first choices 205 places
First preferences per place at Haybridge High School and Sixth Form. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 185 first preferences for 205 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 164 183 156 1.12
2016/17 187 199 180 1.06
2017/18 189 203 183 1.07
2018/19 189 197 182 1.04
2019/20 189 223 183 1.18
2020/21 189 210 181 1.11
2021/22 188 191 177 1.02
2022/23 206 187 184 0.91
2023/24 209 195 189 0.93
2024/25 203 171 171 0.84
2025/26 207 236 186 1.14
2026/27 205 185 178 0.9

Places offered

205

in 2026/27

Named first choice

185

422 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

96.2%

178 of 185

Offers to families outside the council

31%

63 of 205 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

1,092

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

998

91.4% of capacity

Unfilled places

94

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

381

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 Haybridge High School and Sixth Form 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 Haybridge High School and Sixth Form reported 94 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 91.4% 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 Haybridge High School and Sixth Form from 2011/12 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 750 1,500 places on roll 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2011/12 1,221 places 1,204 on roll 2012/13 1,221 places 1,193 on roll 2013/14 1,221 places 1,170 on roll 2014/15 1,221 places 1,162 on roll 2015/16 1,221 places 1,165 on roll 2016/17 1,221 places 1,166 on roll 2017/18 1,221 places 1,170 on roll 2018/19 1,221 places 1,214 on roll 2020/21 1,366 places 1,221 on roll 2021/22 1,366 places 1,204 on roll 2022/23 1,366 places 1,150 on roll 2023/24 1,366 places 1,171 on roll 2024/25 1,473 places 1,221 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
Worcestershire

Postcode DY8 2XS. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 136898).

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.