Last week, the Post revealed that across England, 8% of primary school applicants and 17% of secondary school applicants did not get a place at their first choice school for 2022/2023, affecting nearly 150,000 children in total. In Lancashire, 66 secondary schools made the oversubscribed list, and 28 of these were in Preston, Chorley and South Ribble.
Even more primary schools in Lancashire are oversubcribed – 164 in total – and of these 14 were in Chorley and nine in South Ribble. Take a look at how the schools rank across both areas below:
All the information is from Department of Education data released in June, which you can download here.
For the oversusbcribed primary schools in Preston, read this story.
9. Penwortham Middleforth Church of England Primary School (ranked 75th)
Penwortham Middleforth Church of England Primary School had 35 applicants put the school as a first preference but only 30 of these were offered places. This means 5 did not get a place. Photo: Google Maps
10. Anderton Primary School (ranked 75th)
Anderton Primary School had 35 applicants put the school as a first preference but only 30 of these were offered places. This means 5 did not get a place. Photo: Google Maps
11. Northbrook Primary Academy (ranked 99th)
Northbrook Primary Academy had 10 applicants put the school as a first preference but only 9 of these were offered places. This means 1 did not get a place. Photo: Google Maps
12. St Gregory's Catholic Primary School (ranked 104th)
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School had 32 applicants put the school as a first preference but only 29 of these were offered places. This means 3 did not get a place. Photo: Google Maps