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I'm sure I found a website which gave some stats or figures which showed the number primary schools students who got admissions into various local secondary schools. For the life of me and no amount of Google searching can I now find it. Anyone else seen this or am I going mad

Would this be in a selective area?

I'm just wondering what the point if it would be? apart from vague 'where do children generally end up'

Parents pick the secondary schools, and even in my area where there are linked primary schools, living in catchment is still most important. State primaries don't prep for 11+.

My DD's secondary took pupils from around 40 primaries, but 50% would have come from just 3 very local schools.

I've never seen anything like this locally to us.
But I live in an area where the vast majority go to their local secondary so I could probably have a good guess at what they might be just based on playground chat.

More out of curiosity, I'm sure I saw something with the figures for Colyton. Never looked it up for any other schools. It seemed one state primary had slightly larger % admittance than other. Which made me wonder would the other schools see similar trends and whether house prices in those primary school areas would also be impacted.

Only sites I can find now look like this info might be something needing a paid subscription

Colyton is a grammar school, I think ?

I would imagine they would take a higher intake from primary schools that were more in affluent middle class areas. Which will undoubtedly affect house prices. Although it will be as much family influence as school influence that got the children into the grammar school.

(No knowledge of area; just observation of what generally happens. I am not in a grammar school area, but the school that consistently gets the best SATS results in town is one where the vast majority of the intake come from affluent, middle class, well educated families who take a very hands on interest in the children's education and pay for enrichment activities, tutors etc as required. Anecdotally SEN children are encouraged to go elsewhere. How much of the school's results are down to the actual school?).

It sounds like the sort of thing your local authority may have published, either in a press release, in a document for its own education committee, or in response to a freedom of information request. Maybe somebody shared it on social media or it was published by your local newspaper. You might be able to find it with some clever googling but, if not, you could put in your own FOI request. You can do that fairly anonymously using Whatdotheyknow.com (you're meant to use your own name, but organisations that get lots of requests don't tend to check, so long as your request is reasonable).