Primary school admission figures for entry in September 2019 reveal that 95.9% per cent of York children have been given their first preference of school.
City of York Council’s figures published today (16 April 2019) show that 99.1% per cent of pupils got one of their first three preferences.
The percentage of online applications for primary school places has continued to increase, with 99% of parents and carers applying for their child’s school place online.
Parents who applied online will be notified of their child’s place by email at 10am today, letters are being posted today to parents and those with online accounts can log in to the council’s parent portal at www.york.gov.uk/parentportal.
In 2019 all children within the local authority area have secured a primary school place. The majority of children got one of their first three preferences; with the number of children whose preferences were not able to be met reducing from 11 in 2018 to 10 in 2019.
This year’s admissions figures, compared with last year’s are outlined below:
| 2018 | 2019 | |||
| qty | % | qty | % | |
| 1st | 1821 | 94.2% | 1762 | 95.9% |
| 2nd | 92 | 4.8% | 56 | 3.0% |
| 3rd | 8 | 0.4% | 4 | 0.2% |
| 4th | 1 | 0.1% | 5 | 0.3% |
| 5th | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Other | 11 | 0.6% | 10 | 0.5% |
| Total | 1933 | 100.0% | 1837 | 100.0% |
| Applied Online | 1826 | 94.5% | 1829 | 99.6% |
The total size of the cohort starting school in September 2019 is 1,836 pupils, compared to 1,933 last year.
