Secondary school offers in Surrey: offer day 2027

National Offer Day Monday 1 March 2027 · 58 secondary schools · first-choice odds, waiting lists and appeals

How likely is a first choice here?

For September 2026 entry, 81.3% of families living in Surrey were offered their first-choice secondary school, against 83.6% across England. 452 families (3.8%) were offered none of the schools they named. Surrey ranks 59 of 150 councils in England, hardest first (see every council).

27 of its 58 secondary schools had more first-choice applications than places.

The most sought-after, by first-choice applications per place offered: Gordon's School (2.0 per place), St Andrew's Catholic School (1.6 per place), Cobham Free School (1.6 per place), Heathside Walton-on-Thames (1.5 per place), Hinchley Wood School (1.5 per place).

If you didn't get your first choice

1. Accept the place you were offered by the date in your offer letter. Accepting it does not affect a waiting list or an appeal, and a place that isn't accepted can be withdrawn.
2. Get on the waiting lists you want. Every school must keep one until at least 31 December of the year your child starts. It is ranked by the school's admission rules, not by when you joined, so a family moving closer can go above you. Some councils add you automatically for schools you ranked higher than the one offered; your offer letter says which.
3. Decide whether to appeal. You can appeal for every school that refused your child. You get at least 20 school days from the offer to lodge it, and on-time appeals must be heard within 40 school days of that deadline. The figures below show how often appeals succeed here.
4. Look at schools that took lower preferences. These are the likeliest to have room now.

Schools that took children who ranked them lower

For September 2026 entry these 31 schools offered more places than they had first-choice applications, so some went to families who put them second or lower. They are the likeliest to have room after offer day; ask Surrey or the school.

• Ash Manor School Ash
• Carrington School Redhill
• Chertsey High School Addlestone
• Christ's College, Guildford Guildford
• Collingwood College Camberley
• de Stafford School Caterham
• Epsom and Ewell High School Epsom
• Esher Church of England High School Esher
• Farnham Heath End Farnham
• Fullbrook School Addlestone
• George Abbot School Guildford
• Glebelands School Cranleigh
• Hoe Valley School Woking
• Howard of Effingham School Leatherhead
• Kings College Guildford Guildford
• Kings International College Camberley
• Merstham Park School Redhill
• Oakwood School Horley
• Oxted School Oxted
• Rodborough Godalming
• Sunbury Manor School Sunbury-on-Thames
• Thamesmead School Shepperton
• The Beacon School Banstead
• The Bishop David Brown School Woking
• The Magna Carta School Staines-upon-Thames
• The Priory Church of England School Dorking
• The Winston Churchill School A Specialist Sports College Woking
• Therfield School Leatherhead
• Thomas Knyvett College Ashford
• Three Rivers Academy Walton-on-Thames
• Warlingham School Warlingham

Every secondary school: demand for 2026 entry

Sorted by first-choice applications per place, the most contested first.

Places offered is the number of offers made on national offer day, and first choices offered the share of families who put the school first and got it (Department for Education, September 2026 entry). Last distance offered is published by Surrey, in a straight line from home to school: distance of the last child offered a place, under the last criterion places were offered on. It moves every year with who applies, and siblings and other priority groups are offered places first.

Appeals in Surrey

Secondary school appeals across all of Surrey, from the Department for Education. Appeals are not published school by school. Across England in 2025/26, 19.5% of 27,084 secondary appeals heard were upheld. How appeal odds differ between councils.

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