Parents find out which primary school their child will attend

Parents in Herefordshire have found out which primary school their child will be attending in September 2017.

This applies to the 88% of families who submitted an online application, as those who applied manually will receive a letter after the Easter bank holiday.

Herefordshire Council has made 1,899 offers of places in primary schools across the county with the following parental preference success rates:

First preference:         1,772 offers, which is 93.3% of the total offers

Second preference:    67 offers, which is 3.5% of the total offers with a cumulative success rate of 96.8%

Third preference:        12 offers, which is 0.7% of the total offers with a cumulative success rate of 97.5%

The balance of places offered, which is 48 or 2.5%, were to parents whose preferences could not be met and their offer was for the nearest school to their home address with available spaces.

As in previous years, Herefordshire schools are a net importer of pupils, with more pupils from neighbouring counties requesting places in the county’s schools than Herefordshire pupils requesting places in neighbouring counties.

There are currently 19 Herefordshire primary schools with waiting lists and 51 have available spaces.

In comparison to last year, we offered 1,839 places of which 94.7% were first preferences and 98.4% were one of three preferences.