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School admissions and oversubscription 2018/2019

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Dear Nottingham City Council,

Please could you provide me with the following information relating to school admissions for every state school or state school site within your local authority on both a) national offer day 2018 and b) national offer day 2019:

1. The name of the school or school site

2. The DfE number or URN of the school

3. The Published Admissions Number of the school in that year

4. The total number of times the school was listed as a preference

5. The total number of offers made

6. The number of offers made to siblings of existing pupils

7. The number of offers made under any proximity, distance or “other children” oversubscription criterion

8. The name of the admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted, e.g. "Distance"

9. The home-to-school distance and unit of measurement (and whether this measurement was straight line or walking distance) of the last successful applicant, where distance was used to prioritise this last place

10. Whether the school was oversubscribed in that year

Please always list the school or site, even if there is little admission information available.

As I understand it, this information is normally recorded as a dataset, so it would be great if your response could include the data in an electronic, reusable format such as Excel or CSV, as required by section 102 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.

I am asking for this in order to supplement a website I have created to help parents find out more about schools near them, in particular admission results. You can see it here: http://admissionsday.co.uk.

Please do email me or call me on the number below if you wish to discuss this request, particularly if there are any issues or complications that could lead to a refusal.

Thanks in advance for your time in putting this together.

Yours faithfully,

Mike Thompson
07813 272 634

Nottingham City Council

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Dear Freedom Of Information,

Many thanks for your response, and it's great you're publishing this proactively.

However, although you say you are intending to publish data for 2019 soon, the spreadsheets currently provided do not have any data for the previous year.

Are you planning to add that in as well?

Yours sincerely,

Mike Thompson

Freedom Of Information, Nottingham City Council

Dear Mr Thompson

Thank you for raising this with us. Having spoken to our school admissions team and the team who upload our data it transpires the labelling of the data is misleading. The primary and secondary data for 2017-18 on time reflects offers to start school in September 2018. So 2016-17 data is for offers to start in September 2017 etc.

We are going to update the labelling of this data when the next dataset for offers to start in September 2019 is uploaded.

We apologise for the confusion caused and thank you for drawing this to our attention.

Regards

Freedom of Information Team
Information Compliance | Legal and Governance
Nottingham City Council | Loxley House | Station Street | Nottingham | NG2 3NG
Direct Line: 0115 876 4376

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