Preference data including applications and offers made for secondary and primary school entry each September, and the proportion which received preferred offers
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Key primary preference rates and number of applications
secondary and primary first preference rates at local authority level for 2021/22
Key secondary preference rates and number of applications
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Local authority, National, Regional
Number of places and applications: number and proportion of offers by preference rank; number and proportion of offers inside and outside home local authority.
National
Grouped number and proportion of secondary offers by preference rank split by a) the LAs who have one or more selective schools and b) LAs who have no selective schools
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This document describes the data included in the ‘Secondary and primary school applications and offers: March and April 2021’ Official Statistics release’s underlying data file. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).
The methodology document for this subject should be referenced alongside this release. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality and how the data is produced.
A guide for the 2021 data collection can be found at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957686/School_preference_collection_guide_-_2021.pdf (opens in new tab)
This release provides information on the number of applications made, the preferences listed and the number and preference level of offers for entries into:
It includes national, regional and local authority level information on:
The information is based on the separate secondary and primary application and offer (preference) data collections returned by the local authorities.
Primary and secondary suppression was applied in the 2014 dataset. No suppression has been applied from 2015 onwards
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
‘c’ Suppressed (2014 only)
‘:’ Not applicable.
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