The most in demand secondary schools in Swansea have been revealed in the latest statistics. Some schools have allocated more places than their officially stated number available.
Local authorities can exercise discretion, in line with the Welsh Government’s School Admissions Code, to admit additional pupils into year seven, if there is no suitable alternative school with room within a reasonable travelling distance from the home address. The data provided by the council combined all first, second and third choice applications as one figure, but a vast majority of children got into their first choice secondary, the council said.
The figures provided did not show how near to schools children given places live. The school with the most applications was Olchfa Comprehensive, It had 467 applications for 289 spaces from children listing it as their preferred first, second or third choice.
