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Record pupils gain places
A record number of Hertfordshire children have gained a place at one of their ranked junior schools for this coming September.
More than 2,700 applications have been processed by Hertfordshire County Council's admissions team and parents and carers applying online will be able to view their allocation online from late afternoon today.
Letters informing families of their allocation will also be sent out today by first class post.
An impressive 99.46 per cent of Hertfordshire children have been allocated a place at one of their ranked schools.
This includes 97.28 per cent receiving their first ranked school.
The number of parents applying online has also gone up dramatically to 1,988 or 71 per cent.
Keith Emsall, executive member for education and culture, said: "Hertfordshire has excellent schools and we work with every one of them in order to continually raise standards, and ensure the best possible education for children in this county."
3:12pm Thursday 20th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Bob, St Albans on 6:56pm Thu 20 Mar 08
Very impressive! According to these stats only 4.58 Herts children (that's less than half a child in each of the ten boroughs/districts)d
idn't get a place at one of their ranked schools and only 73.44 children were not allocated their first choice school. Parents in Wheathampstead and other rural parts of the county must be wondering if HCC's admissions team actually passed GCSE maths.
Very impressive! According to these stats only 4.58 Herts children (that's less than half a child in each of the ten boroughs/districts)d
idn't get a place at one of their ranked schools and only 73.44 children were not allocated their first choice school. Parents in Wheathampstead and other rural parts of the county must be wondering if HCC's admissions team actually passed GCSE maths.
Posted by: Chris Oxley, Wheathampstead on 7:35am Fri 21 Mar 08
The high percentage is certainly commendable after last year's debacle in St Albans when huge numbers had problems as indeed you reported in your newspaper.
However the figure glosses over the stress for the 2.72% of children who did not get their first choice.
It will be interesting if County will issue another press release stating how many this represents and where these children are located. (District and Ward). If all children that did not receive a place are in outlying villages such as Wheathampstead then the position is much less satisfactory.
Cllr Chris Oxley Wheathampstead
The high percentage is certainly commendable after last year's debacle in St Albans when huge numbers had problems as indeed you reported in your newspaper.
However the figure glosses over the stress for the 2.72% of children who did not get their first choice.
It will be interesting if County will issue another press release stating how many this represents and where these children are located. (District and Ward). If all children that did not receive a place are in outlying villages such as Wheathampstead then the position is much less satisfactory.
Cllr Chris Oxley Wheathampstead
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