Contested schools in Southwark

These are the Southwark 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 Southwark

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Southwark, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Kingsdale Foundation School	416	964	2.32
Sacred Heart Catholic School	115	238	2.07
The Charter School North Dulwich	178	363	2.04
St Michael's Catholic College	150	192	1.28
The St Thomas the Apostle College	150	181	1.21
City of London Academy (Southwark)	240	223	0.93
The Charter School East Dulwich	231	212	0.92
Haberdashers' Borough Academy	180	135	0.75
Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich	150	113	0.75

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 Southwark, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Charles Dickens Primary School	59	120	2.03
St John's and St Clement's Church of England Primary School	58	100	1.72
Dulwich Village Church of England Infants' School	89	146	1.64
Redriff Primary, City of London Academy	59	94	1.59
Lyndhurst Primary School	60	85	1.42
Boutcher Church of England Primary School	30	41	1.37
St John's Roman Catholic Primary School	30	40	1.33
Heber Primary School	60	79	1.32
John Ruskin Primary School and Language Classes	58	69	1.19
Crampton Primary	30	35	1.17
Judith Kerr Primary School	55	64	1.16
Dulwich Wood Primary School	60	68	1.13
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	30	34	1.13
The Belham Primary School	60	68	1.13
St James the Great Roman Catholic Primary School	30	31	1.03
The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie	30	28	0.93

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.