Sentences with phrase «allocated places at schools»

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«Schools are brilliant at making the best use of resources available to them, and the government is allocating capital funding to support the creation of additional school places.

Families will be told what school their child has been allocated on national offer day next Tuesday and children in London are expected to be the least likely in the country to get a place at their preferred school.

We're looking very carefully at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that grammar schools are not for them.»

The report asks the government to fully fund the continued expansion of schools in London by allocating at least # 1.5 bn to create new school places in the two years from 2018 to 2020.

The 172 existing students will be guaranteed places, while a further 115 places are available to new applicants - with priority for those with siblings at the school and 20 % of the remaining places allocated to children from some of the town's most deprived areas.

Many parents therefore prioritise securing a place at a good school, but are limited in their choices by proximity and other criteria used to allocate children to schools.

But the use of proximity as a way of allocating places is very widespread - and the study noted that the idea of sending children to a local school is well established and popular with many parents, particularly at primary level.

More than two thirds of the intake at Khalsa Science Academy, a Sikh - ethos primary free school in Leeds, were allocated a place despite not selecting it as a preferred school.