Southwark sees the highest percentage of first choice of schools offered since its records began
1 March 2022
Southwark Council received a total of 2,965 on time secondary applications from Southwark families for the September 2022 intake (57 more than last year) and once again, we have been able to offer a secondary school place to every on time Southwark applicant. A total of 2,056 (69.3 per cent) families received an offer at their first preference school. This is the highest percentage and number offered since our records began in 2009.
Councillor Jasmine Ali, Deputy Leader and cabinet member for children, young people and education, said: “This is marvellous news for children and their parents in Southwark, I am delighted that almost 70% received their first choice of secondary school and 94 per cent a school of their preference. After the past two years of disruption and challenges for everyone during the pandemic, this offers fresh and exciting hope for the future. I extend my sincere thanks to all the school and council staff who have worked so hard to manage the application process, and all the best to the children starting secondary school in September.”
2,791 (94.1 per cent) Southwark families have received a secondary school place of their preference through the coordinated admissions process. There are 174 families which have been allocated an alternative school place as they were not able to be offered a school of preference – this is the lowest number without a preference recorded in the last 5 years.
During the evening of 1 March 2022 from 5pm, Southwark families will receive an email from the eAdmissions system which will confirm their child’s offer and provide information on what to do next. The email will be sent to the same email address that was used by the parent/carer when registering to apply online. Families will also be able to find out the outcome of their application by logging into the eAdmissions website using their unique user name and password during the evening of 1 March 2022.
Transition to secondary school is an exciting time for families - we recognise however, families that did not receive a school of their preference and have been allocated an alternative school often have additional queries and/or support needs to help them through the change of school process. Our school admission officers will be available to meet with these families to provide direct support at secondary post offer admissions surgeries which will be held online using the video call tool on the Zoom platform. A personalised email has also been sent to each of these families.
Page last updated: 01 March 2022
