Data set from Local authority school places scorecards

School preference offers - national, local authority

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Published 25 June 2026

Last updated 25 June 2026

School preference offers from national offer day 2025 and 2026

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Local authority school places scorecards
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 612
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National
• Indicators:
  • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of First Preference
  • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of One of Top Three Preferences
  • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of Second Preference
• Filters:
  • School phase
• Time period: 2025/26 to 2026/27

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	education_phase	first_preference_offers_percentage	second_preference_offers_percentage	third_preference_offers_percentage	top_three_preferences_offers_percentage
202627	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	92.42263368	4.784072297	1.152993184	98.35969916
202627	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	83.59567747	8.556720085	2.803235964	94.95563352
202627	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	Primary	94.36246689	4.086265607	0.643208475	99.09194098
202627	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	Secondary	81.73604389	9.841884479	2.936431107	94.51435947
202627	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	830	E10000007	Derbyshire	Primary	94.53331479	4.047850883	0.653776603	99.23494227

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School phase
first_preference_offers_percentage	Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of First Preference
second_preference_offers_percentage	Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of Second Preference
third_preference_offers_percentage	Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of Third Preference
top_three_preferences_offers_percentage	Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of One of Top Three Preferences

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Footnotes

1. z indicates data is not applicable
2. x indicates data is not available

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