Contested schools in Barking and Dagenham

These are the Barking and Dagenham schools that turned first-choice families away in at least one of the last three years — either because more families named them first than they had places, or because they refused families who named them first anyway. Figures shown are for 2026/27. Demand is not a forecast: an oversubscribed school turns more families away, which is not the same as their appeals succeeding more often.

Appeal success rates for Barking and Dagenham

Secondary schools (7)

Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.

Contested secondary schools in Barking and Dagenham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
All Saints Catholic School and Technology College	240	287	1.20
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College	359	423	1.18
The Sydney Russell School	357	361	1.01
The Warren School	240	239	1
Jo Richardson Community School	299	296	0.99
Goresbrook School	124	114	0.92
Robert Clack School	507	430	0.85

Primary schools (15)

Primary schools are listed here as figures rather than pages. Most refusals at the Reception intake are infant class size cases, where a panel can only act on three narrow grounds and fewer than one in ten appeals succeeds — so the honest thing to publish is the data, not a page inviting an appeal.

Contested primary schools in Barking and Dagenham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Eastbury Community School	60	73	1.22
The St Teresa Catholic Primary School	30	36	1.20
The Leys Primary School	30	34	1.13
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	30	33	1.10
Thames View Infants	120	130	1.08
Becontree Primary School	60	63	1.05
Greatfields Primary School	30	31	1.03
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	37	37	1
The James Cambell Primary School	61	61	1
Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road	44	44	1
Monteagle Primary School	67	66	0.99
Dorothy Barley Infants' School	45	43	0.96
St Margarets CofE Primary School	59	56	0.95
Grafton Primary School	109	103	0.94
Henry Green Primary School	44	38	0.86

Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers, school-level file, 2026/27. Appeal outcomes are not published for individual schools — how we source and calculate the figures.