Schools in London

Roman wall remnants, Georgian squares, Victorian railway viaducts, and glass towers rising above Canary Wharf define the layered built form of London, capital of England and a settlement founded by the Romans as Londinium nearly two thousand years ago. From the Thames estuary in the east to the Chiltern fringe in the northwest, the city spreads across 1,572 square kilometres of southeast England, now comprising thirty-two boroughs and the historic City of London. Around 8.9 million people call Greater London home.

The Underground's Central and Northern lines are two of eleven Tube routes threading the metropolis, linking neighbourhoods that vary enormously in character and in the intensity of competition for school places. Westminster and Camden anchor the inner-London catchment race, drawing families who treat admission zone boundaries as carefully as property searches. Wandsworth and Richmond upon Thames are widely regarded as London's most school-competitive postcodes for state catchments, while Barnet draws equally motivated families across the north.