Secondary school preferences and admissions

Request:-

“Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please supply the following:-

1. A list of all secondary, middle and upper schools in Devon and whether they were oversubscribed or not-oversubscribed on national offer day 2018 (1^st March).

Please include each school’s Unique Reference Number (URN), DFE code, or address/postcode to allow us to identify each relevant school without ambiguity.

We define a school to be oversubscribed if, and only if, at least one on-time applicant was refused a place and the applicant did not receive an offer from any higher preference school.

If there were no refusals to on-time applicants – even if the school was unable to accept one or more late applications, or admitted over its published admission number – then we do not consider this school to be oversubscribed.

If you use a different definition of oversubscription, then please make this clear in the response.

2. The total number of places offered at each school.

Questions 3-5 apply to oversubscribed schools only:

3. The number of on-time applicants refused a place who did not receive a place at any higher preference school.
Please include the number of places refused for each individual school.  By this we mean the number of unsuccessful on-time applicants remaining on the school’s waiting list. 

4. The admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted.

5. The home-to-school distance of the last successful applicant, assuming distance was used to allocate this place.

Please include measurement units and whether this is based upon a walking/driving route, straight line/as the crow flies distance or an alternative measurement system.

Please always list all schools within the Devon Local Authority even if you are unable to provide all the requested information – simply mark the relevant values as ‘Not Known’.

Note:
If any of these dates differ – please align to the relevant secondary offer/deadline dates for your local authority.

• Secondary National Offer Day – 1^st March 2018.
• On-time applications – submitted before October 31^st 2017
• Late applications – submitted after October 31^st 2017

Middle deemed primary schools (if present in your authority) may align with other primary education provider dates.”

 

Response:

The requested information is provided in the table below:-

 * Please correlate number with the oversubscription criterion provided on our website here.  The criterion is different for each school, so each school’s information will need to be accessed individually.