School Admission Appeals

Refused a place at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester?

You are not alone. In 2026/27, 22 families who named Tudor Grange Academy Worcester as their first choice did not get a place: the school offered 202 and 208 put it first.

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

1.03

first choices for every place available

208 first preferences for 202 places, 2026/27

Appealing a refusal at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester

There is no published appeal success rate for Tudor Grange Academy Worcester, 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

Tudor Grange Academy Worcester turned first-choice families away in every one of the 12 years published. In each of those years more families named it as their first choice than it had places available.

First preferences per place at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester, 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 1.49 per place 250 first choices 168 places 2016/17 1.26 per place 239 first choices 190 places 2017/18 1.22 per place 251 first choices 206 places 2018/19 1.19 per place 245 first choices 206 places 2019/20 1.4 per place 291 first choices 208 places 2020/21 1.5 per place 311 first choices 208 places 2021/22 1.33 per place 275 first choices 206 places 2022/23 1.36 per place 292 first choices 214 places 2023/24 1.41 per place 285 first choices 202 places 2024/25 1.33 per place 272 first choices 205 places 2025/26 1.18 per place 241 first choices 205 places 2026/27 1.03 per place 208 first choices 202 places
First preferences per place at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester. Years with too small an intake to carry a ratio are left blank rather than plotted. Latest year: 208 first preferences for 202 places.
View as a table
Places, first preferences and offers at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester, by year. A ratio is shown only where the intake is large enough to carry one.
Year Places First choices Offered Per place
2015/16 168 250 167 1.49
2016/17 190 239 186 1.26
2017/18 206 251 202 1.22
2018/19 206 245 191 1.19
2019/20 208 291 201 1.4
2020/21 208 311 206 1.5
2021/22 206 275 197 1.33
2022/23 214 292 209 1.36
2023/24 202 285 198 1.41
2024/25 205 272 194 1.33
2025/26 205 241 200 1.18
2026/27 202 208 186 1.03

Places offered

202

in 2026/27

Named first choice

208

446 named it at any preference

First choices offered a place

89.4%

186 of 208

Offers to families outside the council

0%

0 of 202 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

1,050

2024/25, whole school

Pupils in them

1,002

95.4% of capacity

Unfilled places

48

across Years 7 to 11

Sixth form places

200

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 Tudor Grange Academy Worcester 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 Tudor Grange Academy Worcester reported 48 unfilled places across Years 7 to 11, at 95.4% 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, 2009/10 to 2024/25

Places Pupils on roll

Places and pupils on roll at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester from 2009/10 to 2024/25. Where the roll meets the places line, the school is full. 0 650 1,300 places on roll 09/10 11/12 13/14 15/16 17/18 20/21 22/23 24/25 2009/10 1,100 places 660 on roll 2010/11 1,100 places 702 on roll 2011/12 1,100 places 852 on roll 2012/13 1,100 places 872 on roll 2013/14 1,100 places 865 on roll 2014/15 1,100 places 948 on roll 2015/16 1,100 places 985 on roll 2016/17 1,100 places 1,013 on roll 2017/18 1,250 places 1,036 on roll 2018/19 1,250 places 1,053 on roll 2020/21 1,250 places 1,065 on roll 2021/22 1,250 places 1,121 on roll 2022/23 1,250 places 1,112 on roll 2023/24 1,250 places 1,091 on roll 2024/25 1,250 places 1,075 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
Worcestershire

Postcode WR3 8HN. School details from Get Information About Schools (URN 135913).

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.