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Year 6 parents receive details of secondary school places
01/03/2023
Just 259 children couldn’t be accommodated in any of their selected secondary schools
Today is National Offer Day with years 6 parents receiving details of the secondary school place their child has been offered from this September.
In Oxfordshire 7,120 applications for places were made with 6,172 youngsters being offered their first choice school. That’s 86.69 per cent, which is down on the 88.27 per cent achieved last year when the county council placed 6,606 children in their desired school.
6,861 of applicants have been offered one of the four choices they listed – 96.36 per cent. That left just 259 children who couldn’t be accommodated in any of their selected secondary schools.
Councillor Liz Brighouse, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Children, Education and Youth Services, said: “Our school admissions team and pupil place planners have done an excellent job in ensuring that so many parents and children have been offered their first choice.
“I am grateful to the team for its hard work. Our aim as a council is to give every child a good start in life and our school admissions team certainly play its part in that year in, year out.”
Between now and the start of the next school year there are likely to be some children who do not take up their offered year 7 place, so more families are likely to be offered a higher choice school before the end of term.
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam