Contested schools in Greenwich
These are the Greenwich 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 Greenwich
Secondary schools (10)
Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ark Greenwich Free School | 115 | 357 | 3.10 |
| Leigh Academy Blackheath | 170 | 333 | 1.96 |
| Leigh Stationers' Academy | 240 | 417 | 1.74 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School | 116 | 164 | 1.41 |
| Thomas Tallis School | 249 | 344 | 1.38 |
| Eltham Hill School | 217 | 259 | 1.19 |
| Harris Academy Greenwich | 170 | 195 | 1.15 |
| The John Roan School | 170 | 118 | 0.69 |
| Royal Greenwich Trust School | 144 | 80 | 0.56 |
| Leigh Academy Halley | 168 | 93 | 0.55 |
Primary schools (18)
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.
| School | Places | First choices | Per place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Primary School | 28 | 71 | 2.54 |
| Deansfield Primary School | 60 | 84 | 1.40 |
| Sherington Primary School | 60 | 84 | 1.40 |
| Foxfield Primary School | 89 | 120 | 1.35 |
| Wingfield Primary School | 89 | 119 | 1.34 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | 60 | 78 | 1.30 |
| Thorntree Primary School | 30 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Brooklands Primary School | 30 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School, Shooters Hill | 29 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Windrush Thamesmead Primary School | 30 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Discovery Primary School | 59 | 64 | 1.08 |
| Halstow Primary School | 60 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary School | 60 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Rockliffe Manor Primary School | 30 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Alexander McLeod Primary School | 88 | 89 | 1.01 |
| Greenslade Primary School | 30 | 30 | 1 |
| Eltham Church of England Primary School | 60 | 57 | 0.95 |
| Cardwell Primary School | 58 | 54 | 0.93 |
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.