Contested schools in Lambeth

These are the Lambeth 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 Lambeth

Secondary schools (8)

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

Contested secondary schools in Lambeth, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Woodmansterne School	24	82	3.42
Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School	176	304	1.73
Oasis Academy South Bank	116	153	1.32
The Elms Academy	130	162	1.25
The Norwood School	174	199	1.14
Dunraven School	152	156	1.03
Lilian Baylis Technology School	119	111	0.93
The Elmgreen School	172	120	0.70

Primary schools (24)

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 Lambeth, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Jessop Primary School	30	62	2.07
Iqra Primary School	29	55	1.90
Henry Cavendish Primary School	60	94	1.57
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School	60	84	1.40
Streatham Wells Primary	30	42	1.40
St Andrew's Catholic Primary School	60	82	1.37
Ashmole Primary School	30	38	1.27
Sudbourne Primary School	30	37	1.23
Bonneville Primary School	59	69	1.17
Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School	60	70	1.17
Telferscot Primary School	59	68	1.15
Jubilee Primary School	30	34	1.13
Woodmansterne School	90	99	1.10
Hitherfield Primary School	90	92	1.02
Stockwell Primary School	30	30	1
Walnut Tree Walk Primary School	59	59	1
Granton Primary School	91	86	0.95
The Orchard School	30	28	0.93
Rosendale Primary School	89	82	0.92
Wyvil Primary School and Resource Bases for Speech, Language and Communication Needs, and Autism	29	26	0.90
Reay Primary School	30	26	0.87
Archbishop Sumner Church of England Primary School	19	16	—
Larkhall Primary Campus	17	14	—
Glenbrook Primary School	21	12	—

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.