Contested schools in Islington

These are the Islington 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 Islington

Secondary schools (6)

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

Contested secondary schools in Islington, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Mary Magdalene Academy	171	434	2.54
Central Foundation Boys' School	173	235	1.36
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School	178	166	0.93
City of London Academy Islington	136	106	0.78
Highbury Fields School	136	98	0.72
St Aloysius' College	86	54	0.63

Primary schools (15)

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 Islington, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Mary Magdalene Academy	30	69	2.30
Gillespie Primary School	30	57	1.90
William Tyndale Primary School	59	111	1.88
Hugh Myddelton Primary School	60	101	1.68
Yerbury Primary School	60	87	1.45
Ambler Primary School and Children's Centre	60	75	1.25
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	60	75	1.25
Hargrave Park Primary School	30	32	1.07
Newington Green Primary School	59	63	1.07
Canonbury Primary School	60	60	1
City of London Primary Academy, Islington	60	60	1
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School	25	25	1
Thornhill Primary School	60	55	0.92
Winton Primary School	30	23	0.77
St Joan of Arc RC Primary School	60	41	0.68

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.