Department for Education written question – answered at on 6 March 2019.
Jim Cunningham
Labour, Coventry South
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.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State (Education)
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 |
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% |
Secondary application and offer data are currently being collected and are scheduled to be published, alongside primary level data, in June 2019.
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