This years primary school admissions announced today.

This year 83% offered 1st preference, comapred to last years 72%. This year 94% offered one of their four preferences whereas last year 81%.

It was a brave decision showing great leadership by Cllr Nick Stanton to delay this announcement allowing officers to work out the impact of many scenarios of where to place bulge classes. This time will see over 300 more hundreds of kids compared to last year in the schools of their parents choice. Instead of 474 kids being steered through the system during the summer we’ll see 174.

This compares exceptionally well to Lambeth where 75% obtianed their first preference and Lewisham where 92% obtained choices 1-5.