Secondary Education: Admissions
(asked on 1st March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of children in the UK applying for a secondary school place who were accepted by their first choice every year since 2010.
The proportion of children who applied through the coordinated admissions process for a place at secondary school, and were made an offer of their first choice school, is provided in the table below for entry into the academic years 2010/11 to 2018/19.
Entry into academic year | Proportion made 1st preference offer |
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2010/11 | 83.2% |
2011/12 | 84.6% |
2012/13 | 85.3% |
2013/14 | 86.7% |
2014/15 | 85.2% |
2015/16 | 84.2% |
2016/17 | 84.1% |
2017/18 | 83.5% |
2018/19 | 82.1% |
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Secondary application and offer data are currently being collected and are scheduled to be published, alongside primary level data, in June 2019.