Barnet School Admissions by Preference Rank 2019-2025

London Borough of Barnet provides an overview of school admissions from 2019 to 2025, covering primary and secondary schools. The dataset includes counts of applications and offers broken down by preference rank from 1st to 6th for each academic year.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in school popularity by comparing application counts across preference ranks for each academic year.
• Identify oversubscribed schools by examining the ratio of offers made to applications received at the 1st preference rank.
• Model parental preference patterns by tracking how application counts shift between the 1st and 6th preference ranks over time.
• Support strategic planning by comparing offer availability against application pressure for each school and academic year.

Strengths

• Covers seven consecutive academic years from 2019 to 2025, enabling longitudinal trend analysis.
• Provides a detailed breakdown of admissions data by six distinct preference ranks (1st to 6th).
• Distinguishes between application counts and offer allocations, allowing for demand-supply comparisons.

Limitations

• The dataset excludes placements for Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) and non-preference allocations, which may affect completeness for certain analyses.
• Row counts, column details, and sample data are unavailable, making it difficult to assess the dataset's granularity and structure prior to download.

Provenance

Source

London Borough of Barnet

Time Range

2019 to 2025

Freshness

Data is current as of the last update on 2026-03-25.

Geography

Barnet, London, United Kingdom