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.
| 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.
| 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.