Schools: Admissions
(asked on 5th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children secured a place at their top choice school in (a) England, (b) Kent and (c) Medway in the most recent year for which information is available.
Data on the proportion of children that were made an offer of their first choice school for England was published on 24 June 2014 as part of the Statistical First Release ‘Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2014’, at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-applications
The latest data is for entry into school in September 2014.
The figures for England and the local authorities of Kent and Medway are given below.
Proportion of applicants (%) who received their first choice | ||||
primary or secondary school place, September 2014 entry | ||||
Primary | Secondary | |||
2014 | ||||
England | 87.7 | 85.2 | ||
Kent | 84.9 | 83.6 | ||
Medway | 85.6 | 81.2 | ||
Based on offers made on respective national offer days | ||||