Secondary school transfer day - offers at 1 March 2024
Pupils will today find out which secondary school they will attend in September.
´ºÓêÖ±²¥ pupils
15,479 ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Pupils applied to transfer to secondary school up from 15,107 in 2023.
15,118 (97.67%) Number of applications received on-line (down 0.32%) *
74,366 Total number of preferences submitted (up 771)
14,787 Applicants offered one of their chosen preferences
690 (4.46%) Offered a school place that was not one of their preferences (up 0.14%)
1370 Offered a school outside of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ compared to 1173 in 2023
Total preference offered |
No. 2024 |
% 2024 |
No. 2023 |
% 2023 |
% Difference from 2023 |
|
First |
11,061 |
71.46 |
10,828 |
71.68 |
-0.22 |
|
Second |
2,020 |
13.05 |
1,981 |
13.11 |
-0.06 |
|
Third |
853 |
5.51 |
805 |
5.33 |
-0.18 |
|
Fourth |
457 |
2.95 |
426 |
2.82 |
+0.13 |
|
Fifth |
234 |
1.51 |
251 |
1.66 |
-0.15 |
|
Sixth |
162 |
1.05 |
158 |
1.05 |
0 |
|
Total |
14,787 |
95.53 |
14,449 |
95.65 |
-0.4 |
*The 2.33% total of those applications not received online were from:
- Applications ‘adopted’ from other Local Authorities or Paper Applications sent (103)
- EHCPs received as an internal file transfer (258)
Extra district pupils
1785 pupils who live in another local authority applied for a place at a ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ school (up 26)
3171 preferences were expressed (up 25)
583 pupils who live in another local authority who applied for a ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ school were offered one of their preferences (down 2.30% from 615)
Total Preferences offered |
2024 |
2024% |
2023 |
2023% |
% Difference from 2023 |
|
First |
409 |
22.91 |
392 |
22.28 |
+0.63 |
|
Second |
81 |
4.54 |
125 |
7.11 |
-2.57 |
|
Third |
55 |
3.08 |
68 |
3.86 |
-0.78 |
|
Fourth |
26 |
1.46 |
17 |
0.97 |
+0.49 |
|
Fifth |
9 |
0.50 |
11 |
0.63 |
-0.13 |
|
Sixth |
3 |
0.17 |
2 |
0.11 |
+0.06 |
|
Total |
583 |
32.66 |
615 |
34.96 |
-2.3 |
The 32.66% figure above shows the percentage of pupils who live in another Local Authority, who applied for a ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ School and received one of their preferences (out of a total of 1,785 applications).