The statistics have been collected and published for the first time by the government.

SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMISSIONS, ENGLAND

Local authority	First preference %	Any preference %	No preference %
Barking and Dagenham	68.8	93.7	6.3
Barnet	62.4	89.5	10.5
Barnsley	93.6	98.4	1.6
Bath and North East Somerset	90.9	95.8	4.2
Bedfordshire	97.1	99.6	0.4
Bexley	56.2	96.0	4.0
Birmingham	65.2	93.2	6.8
Blackburn with Darwen	72.5	89.7	10.3
Blackpool	85.8	95.8	4.2
Bolton	83.3	93.9	6.1
Bournemouth	73.7	96.3	3.7
Bracknell Forest	83.5	96.7	3.3
Bradford	76.0	93.2	6.8
Brent	67.5	91.7	8.3
Brighton and Hove	77.3	95.4	3.6
Bristol, City of	83.1	94.0	6.0
Bromley	64.6	94.1	5.9
Buckinghamshire	55.5	94.4	5.6
Bury	87.7	96.6	3.4
Calderdale	79.6	95.3	4.7
Cambridgeshire	92.9	98.6	2.0
Camden	70.9	92.5	7.4
Cheshire	90.0	95.9	4.1
City of London	65.0	100.0	0.0
Cornwall	95.8	98.3	1.7
Coventry	87.3	96.4	3.6
Croydon	55.3	87.4	12.6
Cumbria	90.4	98.4	1.6
Darlington	84.2	92.3	7.7
Derby	81.9	95.6	4.4
Derbyshire	92.8	98.1	1.9
Devon	90.5	97.4	2.6
Doncaster	94.2	98.4	1.6
Dorset*	86.2	91.9	2.2
Dudley	88.0	96.5	3.5
Durham	94.5	97.6	1.7
Ealing	69.7	93.6	6.4
East Riding of Yorkshire	96.5	98.9	1.1
East Sussex	85.3	92.1	7.9
Enfield	62.2	93.8	6.2
Essex	80.8	96.0	4.0
Gateshead	91.9	97.4	2.6
Gloucestershire	81.2	91.9	8.1
Greenwich	64.7	93.9	6.1
Hackney	59.2	85.6	14.4
Halton	87.0	98.5	1.5
Hammersmith and Fulham	60.2	91.1	8.9
Hampshire	91.1	97.9	2.1
Haringey	68.1	92.4	7.6
Harrow	90.1	99.2	0.8
Hartlepool	91.4	98.2	1.8
Havering	75.5	94.9	5.1
Herefordshire	89.8	96.8	3.1
Hertfordshire	78.3	93.2	6.8
Hillingdon	70.1	100.0	0.0
Hounslow	68.0	93.4	6.6
Isle of Wight	97.0	99.3	0.7
Islington	69.6	93.6	6.4
Kensington and Chelsea	59.5	85.8	14.2
Kent	70.5	94.3	5.7
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	82.1	96.5	3.5
Kingston upon Thames	60.0	93.9	6.1
Kirklees	80.2	94.2	5.8
Knowsley	90.1	97.9	2.1
Lambeth	54.3	89.5	10.5
Lancashire	87.0	97.6	2.4
Leeds	84.3	96.0	4.0
Leicester	84.8	96.8	3.2
Leicestershire*	97.9	99.3	0.8
Lewisham	55.2	91.7	8.3
Lincolnshire	89.3	97.9	2.1
Liverpool	84.3	96.2	3.8
Luton	85.4	96.0	4.0
Manchester	75.3	90.6	9.4
Medway	85.2	96.3	4.4
Merton	55.3	90.1	9.9
Middlesbrough	79.7	97.0	3.1
Milton Keynes	84.0	94.0	6.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	88.7	95.7	3.3
Newham	77.1	94.9	5.1
Norfolk	93.6	98.2	1.9
North East Lincolnshire	84.6	96.0	4.0
North Lincolnshire	95.7	99.2	0.6
North Somerset	95.9	98.5	1.5
North Tyneside	95.9	98.8	1.2
North Yorkshire	88.3	96.5	3.5
Northamptonshire	81.6	96.2	3.8
Northumberland*	95.3	99.2	1.7
Nottingham	81.2	94.9	5.1
Nottinghamshire	91.8	95.8	2.5
Oldham	81.8	94.4	5.6
Oxfordshire*	89.7	96.8	3.2
Peterborough	79.0	91.8	7.5
Plymouth	89.8	98.1	1.9
Poole	77.7	94.6	5.4
Portsmouth	87.1	97.5	2.5
Reading	63.7	89.9	10.1
Redbridge	56.7	91.7	8.3
Redcar and Cleveland	98.4	99.6	0.4
Richmond upon Thames	64.4	87.5	12.5
Rochdale	90.1	99.3	0.7
Rotherham	95.2	98.8	1.2
Rutland	90.5	97.7	2.3
Salford	87.7	96.5	3.5
Sandwell	72.9	94.4	5.6
Sefton*	89.3	96.5	1.4
Sheffield	89.8	96.9	3.1
Shropshire	91.8	98.5	1.5
Slough*	38.1	81.0	9.0
Solihull	79.0	99.2	0.8
Somerset	91.8	97.1	2.9
South Gloucestershire	86.6	96.5	3.5
South Tyneside	86.8	100.0	0.0
Southampton	82.5	95.4	4.6
Southend-on-Sea	66.9	95.5	4.7
Southwark	52.4	89.9	10.1
St Helens	91.9	97.2	2.8
Staffordshire	91.9	97.3	2.7
Stockport	88.9	97.7	2.3
Stockton-on-Tees	93.0	98.0	2.0
Stoke-on-Trent	83.9	95.6	4.4
Suffolk*	88.5	93.5	3.7
Sunderland	93.6	99.7	0.3
Surrey*	79.0	91.9	7.2
Sutton	62.2	91.2	8.8
Swindon	97.9	99.8	0.2
Tameside	80.9	96.3	3.7
Telford and Wrekin	87.9	97.7	2.3
Thurrock	85.7	97.2	2.7
Torbay*	76.2	93.1	7.0
Tower Hamlets	70.9	90.7	9.3
Trafford	57.7	94.2	5.8
Wakefield	93.5	99.1	0.9
Walsall	73.9	94.8	5.2
Waltham Forest	76.5	95.8	4.2
Wandsworth	50.8	91.3	8.7
Warrington	90.8	96.9	3.1
Warwickshire	76.0	94.1	5.9
West Berkshire	85.6	96.9	3.1
West Sussex	85.9	92.2	7.8
Westminster	65.6	90.9	9.1
Wigan	91.5	97.5	2.5
Wiltshire	85.8	93.2	6.8
Windsor and Maidenhead*	74.2	89.1	7.0
Wirral*	76.2	97.6	1.8
Wokingham	78.1	95.4	4.6
Wolverhampton	78.2	95.8	4.3
Worcestershire	88.8	94.5	5.5
York	92.7	98.1	1.9
Source: DCSF

* Indicates unverified data