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88% of youngsters heading to first choice secondary school
01/03/2022
The county council needed to find roughly 7,480 secondary school places for the 2022/23 intake
Parents of new entry secondary school children in Oxfordshire have been receiving details of which school their child has been offered.
88.27 per cent of youngsters will be heading for year 7 in their first choice of school – some 6,606 children. In percentage terms that is slightly down on the 89.99 per cent achieved last year, but up on all previous years before that since 2015.
For the 2022/23 intake the county council received applications for around 7,480 secondary school places – meaning roughly 460 extra children needed to be accommodated this year.
In total 7,216 year 7 entrants were offered one of the four choices listed on their application (96.42 per cent).
Councillor Liz Brighouse, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Children, Education and Youth Services, said: “Our school admissions team has 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.”
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam