School admissions in Tower Hamlets

How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 37 of these schools also have a published admissions cutoff distance. Sorted by first preferences per place. We don't invent rankings: the order is arithmetic on a published figure, not a view about which school is better.

Reception places, September 2026

65 schools. 9 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places	Cutoff distance
St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary SchoolLondon	1.67	30	not published
Bigland Green Primary SchoolLondon	1.59	56	471 m (≈0.29 mi) 2025
Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary SchoolLondon	1.42	59	1016 m (≈0.63 mi) 2025
Mayflower Primary SchoolLondon	1.31	52	703 m (≈0.44 mi) 2025
Bygrove Primary SchoolLondon	1.14	28	566 m (≈0.35 mi) 2025
Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolLondon	1.12	59	not published
Bonner Primary SchoolLondon	1.07	30	678 m (≈0.42 mi) 2024
Canary Wharf Primary, GlenworthLondon	1.05	44	not published
Bangabandhu Primary SchoolLondon	1.04	28	656.21 m (≈0.41 mi) 2020
Christ Church CofE SchoolLondon	1.00	9	not published
Hague Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	21	not published
Harbinger Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	29	not published
John Scurr Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	56	617 m (≈0.38 mi) 2025
Marner Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	61	881 m (≈0.55 mi) 2024
Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary AcademyLondon	1.00	12	not published
St Agnes RC Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	27	not published
St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	6	not published
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	20	not published
Stebon Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	88	not published
Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	25	not published
Stewart Headlam Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	24	not published
Virginia Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	24	578 m (≈0.36 mi) 2025
Wellington Primary SchoolLondon	1.00	53	not published
Malmesbury Primary SchoolLondon	0.98	54	not published
Elizabeth Selby Infants' SchoolLondon	0.98	51	not published
The Clara Grant Primary SchoolLondon	0.98	44	405 m (≈0.25 mi) 2024
Cubitt Town Primary SchoolLondon	0.97	80	1318 m (≈0.82 mi) 2025
Cayley Primary SchoolLondon	0.97	36	685 m (≈0.43 mi) 2024
Seven Mills Primary SchoolLondon	0.96	28	624 m (≈0.39 mi) 2024
Sir William Burrough Primary SchoolLondon	0.96	28	not published
St Edmund's Catholic SchoolLondon	0.96	27	not published
Ben Jonson Primary SchoolLondon	0.96	51	2789 m (≈1.73 mi) 2022
Mowlem Primary SchoolLondon	0.95	22	479 m (≈0.30 mi) 2024
St Paul's Way Trust SchoolLondon	0.95	44	1148 m (≈0.71 mi) 2023
Blue Gate Fields Infants' SchoolLondon	0.95	85	759 m (≈0.47 mi) 2025
St Paul With St Luke CofE Primary FederationLondon	0.95	21	not published
Manorfield Primary SchoolLondon	0.95	61	1279 m (≈0.79 mi) 2022
Halley Primary SchoolLondon	0.95	19	not published
St Saviour's Church of England Primary SchoolLondon	0.94	18	not published
Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary SchoolLondon	0.94	52	not published
Old Palace Primary SchoolLondon	0.94	51	958.38 m (≈0.60 mi) 2020
Stepney Park Primary SchoolLondon	0.94	82	not published
Arnhem Wharf Primary SchoolLondon	0.93	44	not published
Marion Richardson Primary SchoolLondon	0.93	58	617 m (≈0.38 mi) 2025
Osmani Primary SchoolLondon	0.92	26	not published
St Elizabeth Catholic Primary SchoolLondon	0.92	13	not published
William Davis Primary SchoolLondon	0.92	12	not published
Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm AcademyLondon	0.92	83	not published
Culloden Primary - A Paradigm AcademyLondon	0.91	57	449 m (≈0.28 mi) 2020
Solebay Primary - A Paradigm AcademyLondon	0.91	11	not published
Cyril Jackson Primary SchoolLondon	0.90	50	518 m (≈0.32 mi) 2024
Columbia Primary SchoolLondon	0.90	48	2040 m (≈1.27 mi) 2025
Globe Primary SchoolLondon	0.88	42	884 m (≈0.55 mi) 2025
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolLondon	0.86	37	not published
Canary Wharf Primary, East FerryLondon	0.84	44	not published
Lansbury Lawrence Primary SchoolLondon	0.84	55	1606 m (≈1.00 mi) 2025
Woolmore Primary SchoolLondon	0.83	83	not published
Olga Primary SchoolLondon	0.83	46	974 m (≈0.61 mi) 2025
Hermitage Primary SchoolLondon	0.81	27	not published
St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary SchoolLondon	0.80	20	not published
Harry Gosling Primary SchoolLondon	0.79	43	not published
English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary SchoolLondon	0.78	27	not published
St Mary and St Michael Primary SchoolLondon	0.74	31	not published
Chisenhale Primary SchoolLondon	0.73	44	716 m (≈0.44 mi) 2024
Kobi Nazrul Primary SchoolLondon	0.72	29	800 m (≈0.50 mi) 2025

First preferences per place is the number of families naming the school first, divided by its published admission number. Above 1.00 means more first choices than places. It is not a ranking and not a measure of quality: a popular school can be easy to get into and a quiet one hard, because places are allocated by each school's own criteria, siblings and faith and banding first, with distance often the last tie-breaker. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE.

Year 7 places, September 2026

16 schools. 4 received more first preferences than they had places.

School	First preferences per place	Places
St Paul's Way Trust SchoolLondon	2.00	200
Swanlea SchoolLondon	1.44	192
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolLondon	1.24	188
Mulberry School for GirlsLondon	1.03	232
George Green's SchoolLondon	0.93	188
Mulberry Academy ShoreditchLondon	0.83	143
Morpeth SchoolLondon	0.81	219
Canary Wharf SecondaryLondon	0.80	74
Central Foundation Girls' SchoolLondon	0.79	214
Oaklands SchoolLondon	0.78	86
Mulberry Academy London DockLondon	0.76	161
Bishop Challoner Catholic SchoolLondon	0.68	90
Langdon Park Community SchoolLondon	0.63	167
Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing CollegeLondon	0.63	185
London Enterprise AcademyLondon	0.62	55
Bow SchoolLondon	0.59	122