Contested schools in Brent

These are the Brent 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 Brent

Secondary schools (10)

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

Contested secondary schools in Brent, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Michaela Community School	112	286	2.55
Wembley High Technology College	230	364	1.58
Ark Academy	131	173	1.32
Claremont High School	260	341	1.31
JFS	338	415	1.23
St Gregory's Catholic Science College	190	205	1.08
North Brent School	210	208	0.99
Queens Park Community School	212	209	0.99
Alperton Community School	321	287	0.89
Ark Elvin Academy	205	160	0.78

Primary schools (19)

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 Brent, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Ark Academy	58	124	2.14
Islamia Primary School	60	111	1.85
Ark Franklin Primary Academy	90	143	1.59
East Lane Primary School	118	162	1.37
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School	59	72	1.22
Our Lady of Grace RC Infant and Nursery School	60	69	1.15
Salusbury Primary School	90	101	1.12
Princess Frederica CofE Primary School	60	63	1.05
Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School	25	26	1.04
Mitchell Brook Primary School	60	62	1.03
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School	70	70	1
Uxendon Manor Primary School	87	87	1
St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School	27	26	0.96
Barham Primary School	111	105	0.95
St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary School	60	56	0.93
Wykeham Primary School	54	49	0.91
Anson Primary School	55	47	0.85
Malorees Primary School	60	50	0.83
North West London Jewish Day School	30	24	0.80

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.