Contested schools in Bexley

These are the Bexley 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 Bexley

Secondary schools (11)

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

Contested secondary schools in Bexley, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School	211	341	1.62
Bexley Grammar School	208	334	1.61
Harris Garrard Academy	150	192	1.28
Beths Grammar School	191	191	1
Leigh Academy Bexley	170	170	1
Harris Academy Falconwood	206	197	0.96
Haberdashers' Crayford Academy	180	168	0.93
Cleeve Park School	188	172	0.91
Townley Grammar School	246	190	0.77
St Catherine's Catholic School	208	158	0.76
Trinity Church of England School, Belvedere	165	104	0.63

Primary schools (22)

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 Bexley, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Dulverton Primary School	60	89	1.48
Barnehurst Infant School	60	85	1.42
St Stephen's Catholic Primary School	59	83	1.41
Birkbeck Primary School	90	121	1.34
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School	60	77	1.28
Upton Primary School	60	76	1.27
Hurst Primary School	90	113	1.26
Leigh Stationers' Primary Academy	30	37	1.23
St Fidelis Catholic Primary School	60	70	1.17
Foster's Primary School	59	65	1.10
Haberdashers' Crayford Primary	30	33	1.10
Lessness Heath Primary School	88	91	1.03
Chatsworth Infant School	60	61	1.02
Hook Lane Primary School	60	61	1.02
Gravel Hill Primary School	44	44	1
Bursted Wood Primary School	77	72	0.94
Bishop Ridley Church of England VA Primary School	26	24	0.92
Days Lane Primary School	90	83	0.92
Upland Primary School	60	54	0.90
Sherwood Park Primary School	39	34	0.87
Belmont Academy	54	46	0.85
Orchard Primary School	30	19	—

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.