Contested schools in Kingston upon Thames

These are the Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Kingston upon Thames, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Tiffin School	195	479	2.46
The Tiffin Girls' School	189	445	2.35
Richard Challoner School	150	234	1.56
The Kingston Academy	210	306	1.46
The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre	193	202	1.05
The Holy Cross School	157	165	1.05
Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form	255	229	0.90
Coombe Girls' School	252	198	0.79
Coombe Boys' School	194	119	0.61

Primary schools (16)

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 Kingston upon Thames, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Alexandra Primary School	60	103	1.72
Malden Parochial CofE Primary School	30	39	1.30
St Luke's CofE Primary School	30	38	1.27
Castle Hill Primary School	60	70	1.17
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School	30	34	1.13
Knollmead Primary School	30	34	1.13
St Paul's CofE Primary School	30	34	1.13
Burlington Infant and Nursery School	120	126	1.05
Coombe Hill Infant School	90	88	0.98
St Matthew's CofE Primary School	60	59	0.98
Christ Church New Malden CofE Primary School	39	37	0.95
Tolworth Infant and Nursery School	85	79	0.93
Ellingham Primary School	46	41	0.89
Maple Infants' School	90	80	0.89
Latchmere School	73	60	0.82
Lime Tree Primary School	23	18	—

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.