Contested schools in Kensington and Chelsea

These are the Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea

Secondary schools (5)

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

Contested secondary schools in Kensington and Chelsea, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School	123	244	1.98
All Saints Catholic College	174	240	1.38
Holland Park School	255	311	1.22
Kensington Aldridge Academy	210	186	0.89
Chelsea Academy	170	108	0.64

Primary schools (9)

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 Kensington and Chelsea, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Fox Primary School	58	140	2.41
Thomas Jones Primary School	29	69	2.38
Christ Church CofE Primary School	30	62	2.07
Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School	30	59	1.97
Bousfield Primary School	58	76	1.31
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	30	32	1.07
Marlborough Primary School	60	48	0.80
Colville Primary School	60	46	0.77
Kensington Primary Academy	30	22	0.73

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.