Contested schools in Lewisham

These are the Lewisham 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 Lewisham

Secondary schools (11)

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

Contested secondary schools in Lewisham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Bonus Pastor Catholic College	172	305	1.77
Prendergast School	115	159	1.38
Prendergast Ladywell School	110	120	1.09
Haberdashers' Hatcham College	218	210	0.96
Sedgehill Academy	176	168	0.95
Sydenham School	235	217	0.92
Deptford Green School	168	150	0.89
St Matthew Academy	155	134	0.86
Forest Hill School	168	126	0.75
Addey and Stanhope School	85	61	0.72
Trinity Church of England School, Lewisham	90	59	0.66

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 Lewisham, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Horniman Primary School	30	47	1.57
John Ball Primary School	91	138	1.52
Gordonbrock Primary School	90	128	1.42
Downderry Primary School	60	84	1.40
Ashmead Primary School	60	83	1.38
Haberdashers' Hatcham Free School	60	83	1.38
St Margaret's Lee CofE Primary School	30	41	1.37
St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary School	60	81	1.35
Brindishe Manor School	60	79	1.32
Edmund Waller Primary School	60	76	1.27
Dalmain Primary School	59	73	1.24
Sandhurst Primary School	90	110	1.22
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School	30	36	1.20
Brindishe Lee School	30	35	1.17
Prendergast Vale School	30	32	1.07
Rathfern Primary School	59	63	1.07
Beecroft Garden Primary	59	59	1
St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School	30	29	0.97
Stillness Infant School	83	77	0.93
Good Shepherd RC School	18	16	—
Tidemill Academy	56	50	0.89
Kilmorie Primary School	82	69	0.84
Brindishe Green School	90	75	0.83
All Saints' Church of England Primary School Blackheath	30	21	0.70

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.