{"id":791,"date":"2013-04-15T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=791"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:25:40","slug":"12000-children-miss-out-on-chosen-secondary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/04\/12000-children-miss-out-on-chosen-secondary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"12,000 children miss out on chosen secondary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith,mattburgess1:Matt Burgess\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/04\/12000-children-miss-out-on-chosen-secondary-school\/\" data-text=\"12,000 children miss out on chosen secondary school\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith%2Cmattburgess1%3AMatt%20Burgess&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2013%2F04%2F12000-children-miss-out-on-chosen-secondary-school%2F&#038;text=12%2C000%20children%20miss%20out%20on%20chosen%20secondary%20school\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span><strong>More than 12,000 secondary school children have failed to get a school preference of their choice, figures have revealed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/researchandstatistics\/datasets\/a00203153\/secondary-school-applications-and-offers-march-2012\">data from the Department of Education<\/a> shows the number of applications being made to secondary schools for pupils to begin their studies in 2013\/14 has falled by almost 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The three main figures the Department want us to see are below and generally show the application process is working well. They show <strong>increasing number of families getting places at their\u00a0preferred schools<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>85.3% of families received an offer of a place at their first preference school \u2013 an increase of 0.7% compared to March 2011 and continuing the recent rising trend.<\/li>\n<li>95.9% of families received an offer of a place at\u00a01 of their top\u00a03 preferred schools \u2013 an increase of 0.3% compared to March 2011 and continuing the recent rising trend.<\/li>\n<li>97.6% of families received an offer of a place at one of their preferred schools \u2013 an increase of 0.3% compared to March 2011 and continuing the recent rising trend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>But beyond these figures what does the data say? Where in the country has the most amount of applications, where are you most likely to get your first choice of school?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hammersmith and Fulham, Wandsworth, Westminster, Southwark,\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Kensington and Chelsea<\/strong> all had fewer than 60% of pupils getting their first choice schools.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many of the same authorities also had some of the higher percentages of applicants who\u00a0received\u00a0none of their preferences. <strong>Hammersmith and Fulham had almost 12% of their applicants not\u00a0receiving a place at any of their preferred schools<\/strong>. For the area this is\u00a0approximately\u00a0151 pupils.<\/p>\n<p>This is compared to a national figure of 2.4%\u00a0&#8211;\u00a012,090 home applicants &#8211; who did not\u00a0receive\u00a0places at any of their preferred\u00a0schools (from a total of\u00a0503,734 &#8211; down from\u00a0512,193 last year).<\/p>\n<p>Although this only represents a small percentage of applicants it can cause great difficulty for families who may have to pay more for their child&#8217;s travel to school, while children may also be split from friendship groups.<\/p>\n<p>One third of the pupils not\u00a0receiving\u00a0any of their preferences are from London areas, which offer pupils six choices of schools when they apply.<\/p>\n<p>Some areas of the country only offer three choices.<\/p>\n<p>Across London there were 77,322\u00a0applications\u00a0for secondary school positions and\u00a03,866 pupils did not get any of their choices.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve mapped the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0ApOyiQf0W9IndEVaY204NGswUzR0YjV0RF9zZ3E2RkE&amp;usp=sharing\">number of children in each London Borough<\/a> who did not get any of their chosen schools.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!-- Code Embed v2.2.1 -->\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?viz=MAP&amp;q=select+col1%3E%3E0+from+1dCxBC4sy9_jPNVjetgzvitd2zmEOeihpMequu0g&amp;h=false&amp;lat=51.49512716689192&amp;lng=-0.13160866699217877&amp;z=10&amp;t=1&amp;l=col1%3E%3E0&amp;y=2&amp;tmplt=2\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- End of Code Embed code -->\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central Bedfordshire <\/strong>and<strong> North Tyneside<\/strong>, came top of the pile for the percentage of pupils getting their first choice schools, as they nearly scored perfect scores with 99.6% and 99% respectively.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_810\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/secondaryapplications-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-810\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-820\" alt=\"Secondary school applications 2013 - infographic\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/secondaryapplications-1-768x1024.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/secondaryapplications-1-768x1024.png 768w, http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/secondaryapplications-1-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secondary school applications and offers in England: March 2012\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"View Matthew Burgess's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/matthew_burgess_33\">Matthew Burgess<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, it has to be taken into account that <strong>15 authorities across the country are using a fully selective system<\/strong>. Within these grammar schools select pupils by their performance in 11 Plus exams, as well as internal exams and interviews, depending on each school&#8217;s preference.<\/p>\n<p>This can skew DfE published figures as those do not take into account how applications for fully selective authorities can change the overall percentages.\u00a0As a result we have removed these authorities from the graphic above.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the government&#8217;s figures show <strong>Buckinghamshire <\/strong>and<strong> Slough<\/strong>, who are fully selective authorities, as accepting fewer than 55% of pupils with their first choice preferences.\u00a0\u00a0A spokesperson for Buckinghamshire told us that 88% of pupils achieve their first choice, once grammar schools have been taken into account.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If parents want their child to be tested for the 11+ and if qualified, attend a grammar school, they are encouraged to rank grammar schools higher than upper schools. Parents are able to express up to six preferences.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full data from the Department of Education\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/researchandstatistics\/datasets\/a00203153\/secondary-school-applications-and-offers-march-2012\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If your child\/children didn&#8217;t get any of their\u00a0preferred\u00a0secondary school choices then let us know by emailing: matt@helpmeinvestigate.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetMore than 12,000 secondary school children have failed to get a school preference of their choice, figures have revealed.\u00a0 Recently published data from the Department of Education shows the number of applications being made to secondary schools for pupils to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/04\/12000-children-miss-out-on-chosen-secondary-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[410,411,408,420,417,409,412,416,418,406,190,419,415,413,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}