Successful primary school admission appeals by council, England

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• 0.0% to 0.0%
• 0.0% to 6.9%
• 6.9% to 14.3%
• 14.3% to 22.2%
• 22.2% to 45.5%

Boundaries: Council boundaries, May 2026, from the geography spine. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Department for Education

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Notes

• All received appeals are described as being lodged. The appeals will be considered by a panel hearing unless they are withdrawn by the parent/carer – this is described as being heard. The heard appeals can be rejected or upheld (that is, successful).
• Reporting year 2026 counts appeals lodged by 1 September 2025 and reporting year 2025 those lodged by 1 September 2024: “In order to allow us to report on the current academic year, only appeals lodged by 1 September and relating to entry into the start of the academic year (for any year group) are collected. Appeals relating to applications for ‘in year’ entry, where a pupil moves during the course of the academic year, are not included.” (the DfE's methodology).
• How the appeals are collected: “Local authorities provide aggregate appeal data for all of their community and voluntary controlled schools via the school admission appeals data collection (APAD), returned to the department each January in relation to appeals submitted by the previous 1 September. Foundation, voluntary aided and academy schools submit their own appeal data via the spring school census (admissions appeals module), also held in January. All LAs are required in principle to provide a return for all of their mainstream community and voluntary controlled schools via the school admission appeals data collection (also known as APAD).” (the DfE's methodology). The figures are given by local authority as the Department for Education publishes them.
• The rate of appeals which were decided in the parents’ favour is calculated as a proportion of those heard and is therefore unaffected throughout. Because the number of appeals heard can be very small at local authority level, there can be significant variation in rates upheld (calculated as percentage of the appeals heard) which only relate to a numerical difference of one or two appeals being successful.
• Where no appeals were heard there is no success rate to make; the Department for Education prints 0 and the hub shows it as published: in 2026 for City of London, Isles of Scilly, North East Lincolnshire, Rutland and Torbay; in 2025 for City of London, Isles of Scilly and Redcar and Cleveland.
• For all all through schools, any appeals received relating to entry into years reception to 6 have been counted as primary appeals, and appeals relating to years 7 upwards as secondary appeals.
• “From 2026, the Isles of Scilly is included as a local authority with no appeals heard.” (the DfE's methodology). The 2026 release's file also gives it for 2025, with no appeals heard.
• Barnsley and Sheffield are given under their codes from before 1 April 2025, as the Department for Education gives them.
• The Department for Education publishes these as accredited official statistics. Its data is released under the Open Government Licence, as its data guidance says; it names no version.