Enrolling your child into secondary school can be tricky, here are the hardest Bristol secondary schools to get a place.Enrolling your child into secondary school can be tricky, here are the hardest Bristol secondary schools to get a place.
Enrolling your child into secondary school can be tricky, here are the hardest Bristol secondary schools to get a place.

Oversubscribed schools: the 8 Bristol secondary schools that are the hardest to get into

Bristol World has put together a list of the hardest secondary schools to get your child into, have you struggled with any of our picks?

Thousands of children missed out on a place at their preferred secondary school in Bristol this year, official figures reveal.

Across England, 8% of primary school applicants and 17% of secondary school applicants did not get a place at their first choice school, affecting nearly 150,000 children in total.

One secondary school in Bristol proved to be one of the country’s hardest to secure a place at with just 38% of applicants to select it as their first choice being accepted.

In the South West, 10.7% of applicants did not get into their first choice secondary school. This meant 5,969 secondary aged children did not get a place at their first choice school.

How competitive is it to get into your local secondary school? Here we reveal which Bristol secondary schools are the hardest to get into.

One secondary school in Bristol proved to be one of the country’s hardest to secure a place at with just 38% of applicants to select it as their first choice being accepted.

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