Contested schools in Hackney

These are the Hackney 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 Hackney

Secondary schools (8)

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

Contested secondary schools in Hackney, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Mossbourne Community Academy	204	358	1.75
Clapton Girls' Academy	171	258	1.51
Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy	159	229	1.44
City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park	170	205	1.21
Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School	79	79	1
The City Academy, Hackney	173	165	0.95
Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form	247	210	0.85
Haggerston School	131	62	0.47

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.

Contested primary schools in Hackney, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Mossbourne Riverside Academy	59	106	1.80
Betty Layward Primary School	58	89	1.53
Gayhurst Community School	58	82	1.41
Rushmore Primary School	59	78	1.32
Lauriston School	58	71	1.22
Shacklewell Primary School	61	73	1.20
William Patten Primary School	60	69	1.15
Sebright School	56	64	1.14
Hackney New Primary School	49	55	1.12
Grazebrook Primary School	60	66	1.10
Shoreditch Park Primary School	53	58	1.09
Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School	30	32	1.07
Springfield Community Primary School	28	30	1.07
Grasmere Primary School	29	28	0.97
Mossbourne Parkside Academy	28	27	0.96
The Olive School, Hackney	85	78	0.92
Jubilee Primary School	55	50	0.91
Hoxton Garden Primary	29	24	0.83

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.