School admission appeals pack
If your child was refused a place at a school, you have the right to appeal to an independent panel. The pack brings together what you need to prepare an appeal for one school.
What's in the pack
- The law on admission appeals, quoted from the School Admission Appeals Code with paragraph numbers: deadlines, the hearing and how the panel decides.
- The separate, narrower rules for infant class size appeals (Reception to Year 2), for primary appeals.
- How many appeals were lodged, heard and won in the school's council, from DfE's figures where it publishes them (DfE does not publish them for single schools).
- The admissions figures we hold for the school, such as applications and offers and the last distance offered, and how your distance compares.
- A checklist of recognised grounds for appeal, with the evidence that usually supports each one, including grammar school appeals.
- An appeal letter builder: your answers become a draft statement you can edit, copy and print. Nothing you type is sent to us.
- What happens at the hearing, what to bring, your timeline, and why to stay on the waiting list.
Price and how to get it
£14.99 once, for one school, inc. VAT. A separate one-off: not included in Pro. It is offered on the admissions page of each school where DfE's figures show families who put it first were not offered a place: choose "Get the appeals pack" there. We ask for your home postcode so the pack can compare your distance with the school's figures.
This pack is information, not legal advice. It cannot tell you whether an appeal will succeed.