Contested schools in Hillingdon

These are the Hillingdon 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 Hillingdon

Secondary schools (11)

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

Contested secondary schools in Hillingdon, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Bishopshalt School	178	313	1.76
Barnhill Community High School	227	387	1.70
Vyners School	229	334	1.46
Ruislip High School	193	254	1.32
Northwood School	167	193	1.16
Uxbridge High School	220	225	1.02
Guru Nanak Sikh Academy	118	114	0.97
Queensmead School	236	195	0.83
Bishop Ramsey Church of England School	178	140	0.79
Swakeleys School for Girls	239	185	0.77
The Douay Martyrs Catholic School	235	169	0.72

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 Hillingdon, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Mary's Catholic Primary School	30	45	1.50
Hillingdon Primary School	88	113	1.28
St Catherine Catholic Primary School	30	36	1.20
The Breakspear School	90	107	1.19
Guru Nanak Sikh Academy	60	69	1.15
Yeading Infant and Nursery School	118	135	1.14
John Locke Academy	87	97	1.11
Deanesfield Primary School	89	98	1.10
Botwell House Catholic Primary School	89	92	1.03
Bishop Winnington-Ingram CofE Primary School	17	17	—
Bourne Primary School	30	30	1
Rabbsfarm Primary School	63	62	0.98
Newnham Infant and Nursery School	90	87	0.97
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School	90	86	0.96
Charville Academy	52	49	0.94
Warrender Primary School	59	54	0.92
Lady Bankes Primary School	90	81	0.90
Hermitage Primary School	60	53	0.88

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.