Dave Chaplin
Please ask for: Wuraola Adegbuyi
Reference: 30624485
Email:
xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: 26 July 2022
Dear Dave Chaplin
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) 2000 relating to first choice secondary school applications for CT5. Please see
the response provided below:
I would like to know:
(a) Which secondary school did parents in the CT5 postcode choose as their first
choice school for start September 2022. If this could be broken down into
numbers for individual schools please.
(b) what are the expected numbers of year 7s due to start for each of the schools
above in September 2022?
DfE
School
Preferences
Intake
5444
Barton Court Grammar School
31
150
5421
Canterbury Academy
10
210
5448
Herne Bay High School
12
274
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar
5449
46
150
School
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar
4534
33
165
School
Simon Langton Grammar School
5412
14
150
for Boys
6911
Spires Academy
5 or less
150
5446
St Anselm's Catholic School
7
180
Towers School and Sixth Form
4196
5 or less
275
Centre
4091
Whitstable School
203
210
358
1914

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Wuraola Adegbuyi
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Strategic and Corporate Services