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Schools in Tower Hamlets

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

Tower Hamlets has 97 state schools: 66 primary, 17 secondary, 1 all-through, 3 nursery. Between them they teach around 43,608 pupils. 77 have enough published data for a score, averaging 6.4 out of 10, and 21 score 8 or above.

25 have a sixth form. 64 take children from age three or under. 20 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

Al-Mizan School London · Good Alice Model Nursery School London · Outstanding Arnhem Wharf Primary School London · Good Bangabandhu Primary School London · Good Beatrice Tate School London · Outstanding Ben Jonson Primary School London · Good Bigland Green Primary School London · Outstanding Bishop Challoner Catholic School London · Good Blue Gate Fields Infants' School London · Good Blue Gate Fields Junior School London · Good Bonner Primary School London · Good Bow School London · Good Bowden House School Seaford · Good Buttercup Primary School London · Requires improvement Bygrove Primary School London · Outstanding Canary Wharf College Crossharbour London · Requires improvement Canary Wharf College, East Ferry London · Good Canary Wharf College, Glenworth London · Not judged Cayley Primary School London · Good Central Foundation Girls' School London · Good Childrens House Nursery School London · Outstanding Chisenhale Primary School London · Good Christ Church CofE School London · Good Columbia Market Nursery School London · Outstanding Columbia Primary School London · Good Cubitt Town Primary School London · Not judged Culloden Primary - A Paradigm Academy London · Not judged Cyril Jackson Primary School London · Not judged Daffodil Preparatory School London Darul Hadis Latifiah London Date Palm Primary · Outstanding East London Arts & Music London · Outstanding Elizabeth Selby Infants' School London · Good English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School London · Good Faraday School London Gatehouse School London George Green's School London · Good Globe Primary School London · Outstanding Hague Primary School London · Good Halley Primary School London · Good Harbinger Primary School London · Good Harry Gosling Primary School London · Good Hermitage Primary School London · Requires improvement Ian Mikardo High School London · Good Jamiatul Ummah School London · Outstanding John Scurr Primary School London · Good Kobi Nazrul Primary School London · Good Langdon Park Community School London · Good Lansbury Lawrence Primary School London · Outstanding Lawdale Junior School London · Good London East Academy London · Good London Enterprise Academy London · Not judged London Islamic School London · Good Madani Secondary Girls' School London · Good Malmesbury Primary School London · Good Manorfield Primary School London · Good Marion Richardson Primary School London · Outstanding Marner Primary School London · Good Mayflower Primary School London · Outstanding Mazahirul Uloom London School London · Good Morpeth School London · Good Mowlem Primary School London · Outstanding Mulberry Academy London Dock London Mulberry Academy Shoreditch London · Good Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary Academy London · Good Mulberry School for Girls London · Outstanding Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College London · Good Mulberry UTC London · Not judged Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary School London · Not judged New City College London · Outstanding OMG Education London · Good Oaklands School London · Good Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm Academy London · Outstanding Old Palace Primary School London · Good Olga Primary School London · Good Onelab College London Osmani Primary School London · Good Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School London · Good Phoenix Autism Trust London · Good Phoenix School London · Outstanding Seven Mills Primary School London · Good Sir William Burrough Primary School London · Not judged Solebay Primary - A Paradigm Academy London · Outstanding St Agnes RC Primary School London · Outstanding St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School London · Good St Edmund's Catholic School London · Good St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School London St John's Church of England Primary School London · Good St Luke's Church of England Primary School London · Good St Mary and St Michael Primary School London · Good St Paul With St Luke CofE Primary Federation London · Good St Paul's Way Trust School London · Good St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School London · Good St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School London · Outstanding St Saviour's Church of England Primary School London · Outstanding Stebon Primary School London · Outstanding Stephen Hawking School London · Outstanding Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School London · Outstanding Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary School London · Good Stepney Park Primary School London · Good Stewart Headlam Primary School London · Outstanding Swanlea School London · Outstanding The Clara Grant Primary School London · Good The Complete Works · Outstanding Thomas Buxton Primary School London · Outstanding Virginia Primary School London Wapping High School London · Good Wellington Primary School London · Outstanding William Davis Primary School London · Not judged Woolmore Primary School London · Outstanding Workers' Educational Association 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.

Wapping High School Good · ×0.53 1st prefs/place (2025/26) Bow School Good · ×0.59 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Langdon Park Community School Good · ×0.63 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College Good · ×0.63 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Bishop Challoner Catholic School Good · ×0.68 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Kobi Nazrul Primary School Good · ×0.72 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Chisenhale Primary School Good · ×0.73 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Mary and St Michael Primary School Good · ×0.74 1st prefs/place (2026/27) English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.78 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Oaklands School Good · ×0.78 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Tower Hamlets

Primary schools: Unusual system: 6 large borough-wide catchment areas, each containing multiple schools to choose from — priority within catchment. (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 year	Event	Date
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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