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| Parents await school places news | Parents await school places news |
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| Letters are being posted to hundreds of thousands of parents across England telling them which secondary schools their children will attend. | Letters are being posted to hundreds of thousands of parents across England telling them which secondary schools their children will attend. |
| Local authorities have allocated places for around 660,000 children aged 10 and 11 beginning next September. | |
| Government figures suggest some 15% or 99,000 will not be going to the school they wanted, and many will appeal. | |
| The letters are expected to start arriving on Friday, but some parents will find out by e-mail on Thursday. | The letters are expected to start arriving on Friday, but some parents will find out by e-mail on Thursday. |
| Competition | Competition |
| Councils have spent months working through the choices specified by pupils and their parents. | Councils have spent months working through the choices specified by pupils and their parents. |
| About one third of appeals succeed href="/1/hi/education/6405283.stm">How many get what they want? The proportion of parents appealing against the decision of their local authority has doubled since 1993, although it has declined a little in recent years. | |
| Last year, out of 676,420 secondary school admissions, there were 62,750 appeals of which 16,340 were successful. | |
| Around one third of the appeals heard each year are successful. | |