The six appeals, to the school's governors, were conducted separately at the end of last week. It is understood that the four other appeals have also been denied.
On 7 March, about 200 of the East Sussex school's 1,700 pupils left the premises with the intention of marching into town to demonstrate against the then-imminent war with Iraq.
Teachers rounded up most of the pupils and persuaded them to return to school. All protesters were punished with detention, but six GCSE students were handed fixed-term exclusions, which effectively means they will only be allowed back to school to take their final exams in May and June.
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