Contested schools in Croydon

These are the Croydon 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 Croydon

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Croydon, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Coombe Wood School	174	321	1.84
Riddlesdown Collegiate	299	480	1.61
Oasis Academy Coulsdon	163	176	1.08
Harris Invictus Academy Croydon	178	171	0.96
Orchard Park High School	145	139	0.96
Harris City Academy Crystal Palace	210	177	0.84
Coloma Convent Girls' School	160	125	0.78
Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School	138	92	0.67
Woodcote High School	230	151	0.66

Primary schools (34)

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 Croydon, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Beaumont Primary School	30	64	2.13
Rockmount Primary School	59	107	1.81
Park Hill Infant School	90	129	1.43
Chipstead Valley Primary School	89	121	1.36
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School	30	40	1.33
Chestnut Park Primary School	86	112	1.30
Greenvale Primary School	29	35	1.21
Cypress Primary School	90	108	1.20
David Livingstone Academy	30	36	1.20
Harris Primary Academy Benson	30	36	1.20
St John's CofE Primary School	59	71	1.20
Heathfield Academy	60	71	1.18
St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School	59	69	1.17
St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School	59	68	1.15
The Hayes Primary School	59	68	1.15
Krishna Avanti Primary School	30	34	1.13
St Peter's Primary School	60	67	1.12
Oasis Academy Ryelands	57	62	1.09
Margaret Roper Catholic Primary School	30	31	1.03
Harris Primary Academy Croydon	60	61	1.02
Keston Primary School	60	61	1.02
Downsview Primary and Nursery School	90	91	1.01
St Mary's Catholic Infant School	60	58	0.97
Ecclesbourne Primary School	60	57	0.95
Forestdale Primary School	47	44	0.94
Gresham Primary School	30	28	0.93
Aerodrome Primary Academy	55	50	0.91
Atwood Primary School	60	54	0.90
Ridgeway Primary School	80	72	0.90
Whitehorse Manor Infant School	93	83	0.89
Harris Primary Academy Haling Park	60	53	0.88
Orchard Way Primary School	23	20	0.87
Smitham Primary School	87	76	0.87
Oasis Academy Byron	26	22	0.85

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.