Primary school offers day: How likely is it parents and pupils will get their first choice school?

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The government website says that the majority of pupils will be offered a place at one of their preferred schools, while most will be offered their top choice.

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00:00 It is a tremendous opportunity for parents to think, OK, this is a fabulous time now

00:05 for my child starting a new chapter in his or her life. The news is very good. For example,

00:11 in 2023, 92.5% of families got the first choice school, which is a tremendous, tremendous

00:18 result.

00:19 So I think we probably are expecting the figures to be similar to last year. One of the things

00:23 that's interesting, what we do know is that the population size for primary aged children

00:28 is actually dropping a bit. So it's likely over the next few years, we should probably

00:32 see the success rate of first choices actually going up a little bit. I mean, what we have

00:36 to bear in mind, though, is that it does depend on which part of the country you're in. We

00:40 know that in some parts of the country, there's real particular pressures on places.

00:45 I understand from a parent's point of view, there will be a lot of parents with anxieties

00:50 there, with anticipation there as well. So hopefully the conversation today will try

00:53 and lead them through some of the answers to those angst-ridden questions and make it

00:58 as easy as possible for everybody.

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