Cheshire East scores highly for first choice secondary school places

Cheshire East Council has worked with the borough's schools to offer first preference places to more than 94 per cent of secondary school applicants this year.

This is more than 0.5 per cent up on last years figure and 10.86 per cent better than the 2017 national average of 83.5 per cent. In total, 98.5 per cent of Cheshire East residents are being offered a place at a school of their choice for September 2018. Last year, the figure was 97.73 per cent.

The number of applications received for school places in Cheshire East remains high in 2018, with a total of 4,853 applications received. These included 4,004 from Cheshire East residents.

Mark Palethorpe, acting executive director of people at Cheshire East Council, said: "This is more great news, for parents and pupils, about our excellent education provision in Cheshire East.

"To be able to say to such a high proportion of parents that they have been given their first choice of school for their child is further recognition of our first-class education service we provide in the borough. This is a really outstanding achievement by our team in what continues to be a challenging landscape.

"We know that access to a school of choice is a really important issue for families and our record demonstrates, once again, that Cheshire East is a great place to live and to learn."

Jacky Forster, director of education and skills at Cheshire East Council, said: "Schools in Cheshire East have a nationally recognised and well-deserved reputation for excellence, with 94.4 per cent of our secondary pupils attending schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted. Proof of this is the significant number of applications we receive from outside the borough.

"Because of this, and our desire to offer parents places in a local school of their choice, extra resources have been made available to make this possible."

I have submitted a Freedom of Information Request to obtain figures specifically for Wilmslow High School.

Photo: Mark Palethorpe, acting executive director of people at Cheshire East Council.

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Tuesday 6th March 2018 at 4:10 pm
Lisa - this page - http://bit.ly/2I7ahFN tells you that Wilmslow High will be taking numbers above PAN, namely 30 above the admissions number - a complete form. If I remember correctly Wilmslow High also took numbers above PAN last year and still had to turn students away. Poynton High, on the other hand, has not been allowed to go above PAN, but it is hard to see how that can be maintained.