Contested schools in Tower Hamlets

These are the Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Tower Hamlets, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Paul's Way Trust School	200	401	2
Swanlea School	192	276	1.44
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School	188	234	1.24
Mulberry School for Girls	232	238	1.03
George Green's School	188	175	0.93
Morpeth School	219	177	0.81
Canary Wharf College Crossharbour	74	59	0.80
Central Foundation Girls' School	214	170	0.79
Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College	185	116	0.63

Primary schools (28)

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 Tower Hamlets, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School	30	50	1.67
Bigland Green Primary School	56	89	1.59
Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary School	59	84	1.42
Mayflower Primary School	52	68	1.31
Bygrove Primary School	28	32	1.14
Thomas Buxton Primary School	59	66	1.12
Bonner Primary School	30	32	1.07
Canary Wharf College, Glenworth	44	46	1.05
Bangabandhu Primary School	28	29	1.04
John Scurr Primary School	56	56	1
Marner Primary School	61	61	1
St Agnes RC Primary School	27	27	1
Virginia Primary School	24	24	1
Elizabeth Selby Infants' School	51	50	0.98
The Clara Grant Primary School	44	43	0.98
Cayley Primary School	36	35	0.97
Cubitt Town Primary School	80	78	0.97
Seven Mills Primary School	28	27	0.96
Sir William Burrough Primary School	28	27	0.96
St Edmund's Catholic School	27	26	0.96
Mowlem Primary School	22	21	0.95
St Saviour's Church of England Primary School	18	17	—
Marion Richardson Primary School	58	54	0.93
Cyril Jackson Primary School	50	45	0.90
Globe Primary School	42	37	0.88
Canary Wharf College, East Ferry	44	37	0.84
Olga Primary School	46	38	0.83
Kobi Nazrul Primary School	29	21	0.72

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.