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100 open schools · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · best primary schools · best secondary schools

Hackney has 71 state schools: 50 primary, 16 secondary, 2 nursery. Between them they teach around 31,772 pupils. 66 have enough published data for a score, averaging 7.2 out of 10, and 25 score 8 or above.

16 have a sixth form. 46 take children from age three or under. 18 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

Al-Falah Primary School London · Good All Saints Catholic High School London · Good Beis Aharon School · Good Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School London · Requires improvement Beis Malka Girls' School LONDON · Requires improvement Beis Rochel D'satmar School · Good Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School London · Requires improvement Beis Ruchel D'Satmar London London · Requires improvement Beis Trana Girls' School London · Requires improvement Beis Yaakov Girls School London · Good Benthal Primary School London · Good Berger Primary School London · Good Betty Layward Primary School London · Good Bnei Zion Community School London · Inadequate Bnois Jerusalem Girls School London · Requires improvement Bnos Zion of Bobov · Requires improvement Bobov Primary Boys School · Inadequate Cardinal Pole Catholic School London · Good City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park London · Not judged Clapton Girls' Academy London · Outstanding Clockhouse Primary School London Comet Nursery School and Children's Centre London · Outstanding Daubeney Primary School London · Good Gainsborough Primary School London · Good Gayhurst Community School London · Outstanding Grasmere Primary School London · Good Grazebrook Primary School London · Outstanding Hackney New Primary School London · Outstanding Haggerston School London · Good Halley House School London · Good Harrington Hill Primary School London · Good Holmleigh Primary School London · Not judged Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School London · Good Hoxton Garden Primary London · Good Ickburgh School London · Good Jubilee Primary School London · Good Kingsmead Primary School London · Outstanding Lauriston School London · Good London Fields Primary School London · Not judged Lubavitch Boys' Primary School London · Not judged Lubavitch Girls Primary School London · Good Lubavitch House School (Senior Girls) London · Good Mandeville Primary School London · Outstanding Millfields Community School London · Good Morningside Primary School London · Outstanding Mossbourne Community Academy London · Outstanding Mossbourne Parkside Academy London · Good Mossbourne Riverside Academy London · Outstanding Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy London · Outstanding Nightingale Primary School London · Good Northwold Primary School London · Not judged Ohr Emes · Requires improvement Orchard Primary School London · Good Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School London · Outstanding Parkwood Primary School LONDON · Good Princess May Primary School London · Good Queensbridge Primary School London · Outstanding Rosemary Works School London Rushmore Primary School London · Good Sebright School London · Outstanding Shacklewell Primary School London · Outstanding Shoreditch Park Primary School London · Outstanding Simon Marks Jewish Primary School London · Good Skinners' Academy London · Good Southwold Primary School Hackney · Outstanding Springfield Community Primary School London · Outstanding St John and St James CofE Primary School London · Outstanding St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary School London · Good St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School London · Outstanding St Matthias Church of England Primary School London · Good St Monica's Catholic Primary School London · Good St Scholastica's Catholic Primary School London · Not judged St. Paul's With St. Michael's CofE Primary School Hackney · Outstanding Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form London · Good Stormont House School London · Outstanding T T T Y Y School London · Inadequate TTD Gur School London · Inadequate Talmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz School London · Requires improvement Talmud Torah London London · Good Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass School London · Requires improvement Talmud Torah Yetev Lev London · Inadequate Tawhid Boys School, Tawhid Educational Trust London · Good Tayyibah Girls' School London · Good The Bridge Academy London · Good The City Academy, Hackney London · Good The Excelsior Academy London · Good The Garden School London · Not judged The Lyceum London The Olive School, Hackney London · Not judged The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School London · Good Thomas Fairchild Community School London · Good Vishnitz Girls School · Requires improvement Waterside Academy London · Good Wentworth Nursery School and Children's Centre London · Outstanding William Patten Primary School London · Outstanding Wiznitz Cheder School London · Inadequate Woodberry Down Community Primary School London · Good Yesodey Hatorah Girls School · Good Yesodey Hatorah School London · Requires improvement Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School London · Good

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Waterside Academy Good · ×0.39 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Haggerston School Good · ×0.47 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Parkwood Primary School Good · ×0.55 1st prefs/place (2026/27) The Excelsior Academy Good · ×0.55 1st prefs/place (2026/27) All Saints Catholic High School Good · ×0.63 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Princess May Primary School Good · ×0.69 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Halley House School Good · ×0.7 1st prefs/place (2026/27) The Bridge Academy Good · ×0.73 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Millfields Community School Good · ×0.76 1st prefs/place (2026/27) The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School Good · ×0.79 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Hackney

Primary schools: Priority given to the nearest 3 Hackney community schools by straight-line distance; no fixed catchment-area boundary used. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 2027-10-31
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 2028-01-15
Sept 2028 Offer day 2028-03-01
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 2028-04-17
Sept 2027 Application deadline 2026-10-31
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 2027-01-15
Sept 2027 Offer day 2027-03-01
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 2027-04-16
Sept 2026 Application deadline 2025-10-31 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 2026-01-15 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2026-03-02 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 2026-04-16 (passed)

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