Contested schools in Thurrock

These are the Thurrock 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 Thurrock

Secondary schools (7)

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

Contested secondary schools in Thurrock, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Harris Academy Chafford Hundred	207	374	1.81
St Clere's School	236	288	1.22
Harris Academy Ockendon	236	265	1.12
The Gateway Academy	208	234	1.12
Orsett Heath Academy	235	256	1.09
Thames Park Secondary School	171	176	1.03
Harris Academy Riverside	180	148	0.82

Primary schools (18)

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 Thurrock, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Quarry Hill Academy	58	96	1.66
Abbots Hall Primary School	60	90	1.50
Dilkes Academy	60	87	1.45
Graham James Primary Academy	59	73	1.24
Stifford Clays Primary School	57	69	1.21
St Mary's Catholic Primary School	30	36	1.20
Arthur Bugler Primary School	58	64	1.10
Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred	88	96	1.09
Giffards Primary School	60	62	1.03
Harris Primary Academy Mayflower	149	153	1.03
Belmont Castle Academy	90	88	0.98
Tudor Court Primary School	60	59	0.98
Orsett Church of England Primary School	30	29	0.97
Lansdowne Primary Academy	81	75	0.93
Warren Primary School	60	56	0.93
The Gateway Primary Free School	45	41	0.91
Horndon-On-the-Hill CofE Primary School	30	26	0.87
Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School	58	43	0.74

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.