Understanding Parental Choices of Secondary School in England Using National Administrative Data

Simon Burgess (), Ellen Greaves () and Anna Vignoles

Bristol Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: We study the process of school choice in England, using a new dataset giving all the preferences of all parents seeking a school place in state secondary schools. We set out new facts on the number of choices made, the chance of getting an offer from the first choice, and whether the nearest school is first choice. We use the rich data available to describe these choices by pupil characteristics, school characteristics and neighbourhood characteristics. We show that parents do pro-actively use the choice system, but that the admissions criteria do not work well for poorer families.

Pages: 43 pages.
Date: 2017-10-25
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