Increase in secondary school applicants getting first choice
The proportion of secondary school applicants who received an offer of their first preference school for September 2020 has increased by 1.3 percentage points to 82.2%, Department for Education data has show.
This was based on a 0.7% drop in the number of applicants, to just over 600,000.
The proportion of primary school applicants who received an offer of their first preference school dropped slightly, by 0.4 percentage points to 90.2%.
This was based on a 0.5% increase in the number of applicants for a place at primary school, to just over 612,000.
The proportion of applicants who received an offer of any of their preferred primary schools also decreased slightly to 97.8% in 2020 (from 98.0%).
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