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.
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 School | 2.00 | 200 |
| Swanlea School | 1.44 | 192 |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | 1.24 | 188 |
| Mulberry School for Girls | 1.03 | 232 |
| George Green's School | 0.93 | 188 |
| Mulberry Academy Shoreditch | 0.83 | 143 |
| Morpeth School | 0.81 | 219 |
| Canary Wharf Secondary | 0.80 | 74 |
| Central Foundation Girls' School | 0.79 | 214 |
| Oaklands School | 0.78 | 86 |
| Mulberry Academy London Dock | 0.76 | 161 |
| Bishop Challoner Catholic School | 0.68 | 90 |
| Langdon Park Community School | 0.63 | 167 |
| Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College | 0.63 | 185 |
| London Enterprise Academy | 0.62 | 55 |
| Bow School | 0.59 | 122 |
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.