Contested schools in Waltham Forest

These are the Waltham Forest 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 Waltham Forest

Secondary schools (9)

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

Contested secondary schools in Waltham Forest, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest	122	171	1.40
Walthamstow School for Girls	173	231	1.34
Walthamstow Academy	171	221	1.29
Heathcote School & Science College	171	196	1.15
Kelmscott School	222	234	1.05
Frederick Bremer School	161	168	1.04
Highams Park School	229	231	1.01
Leytonstone School	196	187	0.95
George Mitchell School	70	62	0.89

Primary schools (25)

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 Waltham Forest, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Woodford Green Primary School	30	52	1.73
Coppermill Primary School	30	45	1.50
Riverley Primary School	60	87	1.45
South Grove Primary School	60	75	1.25
Roger Ascham Primary School	60	73	1.22
Willow Brook Primary School Academy	90	108	1.20
St Mary's CofE Primary School	90	106	1.18
Selwyn Primary School	90	103	1.14
The Jenny Hammond Primary School	60	67	1.12
Yardley Primary School	90	100	1.11
Chingford CofE Primary School	59	65	1.10
Greenleaf Primary School	60	66	1.10
Ainslie Wood Primary School	60	65	1.08
Barn Croft Primary School	30	32	1.07
Stoneydown Park School	89	95	1.07
Davies Lane Primary School	118	125	1.06
The Winns Primary School	90	93	1.03
Newport School	120	121	1.01
Handsworth Primary School	59	59	1
Barclay Primary School	180	166	0.92
Chase Lane Primary School	85	77	0.91
St Saviour's Church of England Primary School	60	54	0.90
Parkside Primary School	80	70	0.88
Gwyn Jones Primary School	47	41	0.87
St Mary's Catholic Primary School	29	25	0.86

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.