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Most get first choice school place
Macclesfield Express
|April 30, 2025
CHESHIRE East Council says 93.6 per cent of parents received a place for their child at their first choice primary school.
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The figure for September 2025 was up slightly from 2024 and came from 3,880 applications for 120 schools in the borough.
And 98.9 per cent of parents received a preference place on national offer day, April 16.
This story is from the April 30, 2025 edition of Macclesfield Express.
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