Contested schools in Merton

These are the Merton 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 Merton

Secondary schools (7)

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

Contested secondary schools in Merton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Ursuline High School Wimbledon	206	254	1.23
Wimbledon College	194	188	0.97
Harris Academy Merton	236	220	0.93
Harris Academy Wimbledon	190	164	0.86
Rutlish School	260	195	0.75
Ricards Lodge High School	266	193	0.73
Harris Academy Morden	184	114	0.62

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 Merton, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Merton Park Primary School	30	74	2.47
Bishop Gilpin CofE Primary School	60	115	1.92
Hollymount School	60	92	1.53
Wimbledon Park Primary School	90	134	1.49
St Mark's Primary School	29	37	1.28
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School	60	76	1.27
Malmesbury Primary School	30	36	1.20
Harris Primary Academy Merton	60	66	1.10
Dundonald Primary School	60	64	1.07
Park Academy	30	32	1.07
Singlegate Primary School	90	87	0.97
Lonesome Primary School	22	21	0.95
Haslemere Primary School	27	24	0.89
William Morris Primary School	28	25	0.89
Wimbledon Chase Primary School	89	78	0.88
Hillcross Primary School	59	49	0.83

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.