Contested schools in Harrow

These are the Harrow 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 Harrow

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in Harrow, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Avanti House School	167	367	2.20
Whitmore High School	257	407	1.58
Pinner High School	169	226	1.34
Nower Hill High School	310	392	1.26
Bentley Wood High School	235	216	0.92

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 Harrow, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Avanti House Primary School	58	135	2.33
Krishna Avanti Primary School	60	118	1.97
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School	60	100	1.67
Hujjat Primary School	59	92	1.56
Vaughan Primary School	89	129	1.45
Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School	59	76	1.29
Cannon Lane Primary School	89	113	1.27
Pinner Wood School	89	113	1.27
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School	87	97	1.11
West Lodge Primary School	89	97	1.09
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	59	63	1.07
Priestmead Primary School and Nursery	118	123	1.04
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School	60	62	1.03
Saint Jerome Church of England Bilingual School	59	59	1
St John's CofE School	30	30	1
St George's Primary Catholic Voluntary Academy	58	56	0.97
Grimsdyke School	90	86	0.96
Norbury School	90	55	0.61

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.