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Secondary school offer day 2027: guide by council

Secondary school offers for September 2027 arrive on Monday 1 March 2027. Pick your council for how many families get their first choice there, which schools took children who ranked them lower, and how often appeals succeed.

Across England, 83.6% of families were offered their first-choice secondary school for September 2026 entry. The rate varies a long way between councils: every council ranked.

CouncilFirst choice offered (2026) Secondary schoolsLast distances published
Barking and Dagenham 81.9% 12
Barnet 72.7% 28
Barnsley 91.0% 11
Bath and North East Somerset 88.4% 12
Bedford 90.6% 12
Bexley 68.1% 16
Birmingham 75.7% 85
Blackburn with Darwen 78.9% 11
Blackpool 84.9% 8
Bolton 87.1% 21
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 86.4% 21
Bracknell Forest 82.7% 7
Bradford 78.1% 35
Brent 70.4% 16
Brighton and Hove 82.9% 10
Bristol, City of 84.0% 24
Bromley 66.3% 19
Buckinghamshire 76.7% 36
Bury 90.7% 13
Calderdale 91.2% 13
Cambridgeshire 88.3% 34
Camden 73.7% 10
Central Bedfordshire 91.0% 9
Cheshire East 93.1% 21
Cheshire West and Chester 95.0% 19
Cornwall 97.4% 31
County Durham 94.2% 29
Coventry 82.1% 21Yes
Croydon 71.2% 23
Cumberland 95.3% 18
Darlington 91.5% 8
Derby 81.7% 15
Derbyshire 94.5% 45
Devon 93.3% 40
Doncaster 89.9% 19
Dorset 97.9% 16
Dudley 87.1% 19
Ealing 73.0% 17
East Riding of Yorkshire 96.8% 18
East Sussex 86.3% 25Yes
Enfield 77.0% 21
Essex 83.4% 78
Gateshead 87.1% 9
Gloucestershire 86.8% 40Yes
Greenwich 60.2% 15
Hackney 74.6% 16
Halton 96.2% 8
Hammersmith and Fulham 64.5% 11
Hampshire 90.1% 69
Haringey 76.8% 12Yes
Harrow 65.6% 13
Hartlepool 92.7% 5
Havering 74.7% 18Yes
Herefordshire, County of 91.9% 14
Hertfordshire 77.5% 78Yes
Hillingdon 67.2% 18
Hounslow 68.9% 17
Isle of Wight 83.4% 7
Islington 66.2% 10
Kensington and Chelsea 66.8% 6
Kent 78.9% 104Yes
Kingston upon Hull, City of 84.9% 12
Kingston upon Thames 69.3% 11
Kirklees 89.2% 24
Knowsley 78.1% 6
Lambeth 61.4% 16
Lancashire 87.1% 81
Leeds 83.2% 44
Leicester 83.9% 21
Leicestershire 90.2% 43
Lewisham 63.5% 14
Lincolnshire 84.7% 53
Liverpool 68.1% 30
Luton 82.8% 13
Manchester 77.1% 32
Medway 80.4% 19
Merton 67.4% 9
Middlesbrough 84.3% 8
Milton Keynes 82.2% 15
Newcastle upon Tyne 79.0% 11
Newham 74.5% 20
Norfolk 94.1% 52
North East Lincolnshire 92.0% 10
North Lincolnshire 96.2% 13
North Northamptonshire 85.2% 21
North Somerset 95.3% 11
North Tyneside 84.3% 10
North Yorkshire 91.9% 40
Northumberland 96.0% 11
Nottingham 80.3% 19
Nottinghamshire 92.5% 44
Oldham 75.2% 14
Oxfordshire 85.4% 39
Peterborough 82.9% 15
Plymouth 91.7% 18
Portsmouth 83.4% 10
Reading 73.1% 10
Redbridge 68.4% 19
Redcar and Cleveland 93.0% 10
Richmond upon Thames 62.2% 11
Rochdale 86.8% 13
Rotherham 92.4% 16
Rutland 93.1% 3
Salford 85.9% 15
Sandwell 80.8% 22
Sefton 89.0% 18
Sheffield 88.7% 28
Shropshire 91.0% 20
Slough 68.7% 15
Solihull 79.7% 14Yes
Somerset 92.1% 25
South Gloucestershire 89.4% 15
South Tyneside 89.2% 8
Southampton 83.4% 13
Southend-on-Sea 78.3% 12
Southwark 72.1% 19
St. Helens 93.3% 9
Staffordshire 91.9% 49
Stockport 79.9% 14
Stockton-on-Tees 94.8% 13
Stoke-on-Trent 88.5% 15
Suffolk 92.7% 43
Sunderland 92.9% 18
Surrey 81.3% 58Yes
Sutton 69.5% 15
Swindon 90.5% 13
Tameside 86.7% 16
Telford and Wrekin 76.1% 12
Thurrock 74.8% 13
Torbay 79.7% 8
Tower Hamlets 79.1% 16
Trafford 81.0% 19
Wakefield 90.7% 18
Walsall 77.4% 18
Waltham Forest 79.5% 17
Wandsworth 60.4% 11
Warrington 88.9% 13
Warwickshire 82.3% 39
West Berkshire 94.9% 10
West Northamptonshire 75.8% 22
West Sussex 87.5% 40
Westminster 65.8% 10
Westmorland and Furness 96.4% 19
Wigan 91.1% 19
Wiltshire 93.9% 28
Windsor and Maidenhead 75.5% 8
Wirral 95.3% 20
Wokingham 82.4% 10
Wolverhampton 74.8% 20
Worcestershire 88.1% 25Yes
York 93.7% 9

First choice offered: the share of families living in the council who were offered their first-choice secondary school on offer day (Department for Education), wherever that school is. "Last distances published" marks councils whose own figures for the last child offered a place are on their page. England only: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland run different admissions systems.

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