More than three quarters of young people given preferred secondary school place, smashing the London average
More than three in four young people in Barking and Dagenham will attend their first preference secondary school from September this year.
Figures show that out of 3,381 applications, 2,627 (77.67 per cent) of 10 and 11-year-olds have been offered their first preference, smashing the capital’s average of 68.30 per cent.