Primary Education: Burnley
(asked on 25th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were not allocated a place at their preferred primary school place in Burnley in the academic year 2015-16.
Information on school place preferences being met is not available at constituency level. Data is collected at local authority level and the figures for Lancashire local authority (which includes the Burnley constituency) show that for the academic year 2015-16 a total of 448 applicants did not receive an offer of any of their top three preferences. Full details are provided in the table below.
Lancashire local authority, primary school preferences, 2015/16 | |||
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| Total number of applicants | 13,444 |
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| Applicants who received 1st preference | 11,889 | 88.4 |
| Applicants who did not receive 1st preference | 1,555 | 11.6 |
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| Applicants who received a preferred offer | 12,996 | 96.7 |
| Did not receive a preferred offer | 448 | 3.3 |
Lancashire’s figures were an improvement on their results for 2014/15, when 504 applicants did not receive an offer of any of their preferred schools, out of a total of 13,543 applications. This meant that 3.7% did not receive a preferred offer (compared to 3.3% in 2015/16), whilst 96.3% did receive an offer of one of their preferred schools.