How many applicants vs Private/Grammar school places

[Limebasilico]

Starting points for gathering this data? How many places are there on the Grammar and SW London private school circuit and how many children are applying? 1% nationally but I wonder what that percentage is in SW London. 20%?

Someone on another thread reckoned there are about 8000 private school places on London. That doesn't include grammars though. Are you trying to find out something specifically?

Interested in the ratio of applicants vs spaces.

One nearish popular grammar (SW London) is 180 places and around 1500 applicants.

KGS, WHS, Emanuel, Ibstock, PHS, LU - all in the region of 10 applicants per place (but notice that all schools over-offer as they know they will get rejections)

I assume the OP is essentially trying to work out whether all kids who apply to grammar/private eventually get a place in one of them somewhere.

These Schools get many more applications than places, but of course most parents apply for more than one school, so applications will always be a multiple of the number of kids there are in the system.

I'm not aware of anyone having tried to calculate it and it would be pretty much impossible to do reliably as the schools themselves often don't know, reliably, how many schools their applicants have applied for.

From my POV as a chair of appeals panels in surrey/SW London who regular sees grammar appeals, there are certainly some children every year who don't get the type of state school they want.

Exactly that, I am trying to work out if all applicants eventually get a place in a school they have applied to.

I would say that applicants will eventually get a school place, but not necessarily to where they first applied to. For example, some are lucky and get multiple offers and some are not. Some get WL and no offers or some just no offers. If you apply to 5 of the most difficult schools you get into you are not guaranteed to get an offer to one of them. But if you apply to a few schools that are easier to get into you have more of a chance. It really depends on the school. One poster recently posted the got no offer from almost 10 schools, so now are looking where to apply last minute, who might accept their dd. People have been helpful in suggesting some alternative schools.