A total of 21,889 parents/carers (18,311 from Kent) applied for a place for their child in a Kent school for September 2022. This is 375 fewer than the previous year, but the number of Kent pupils has increased by 38.
The percentage of pupils offered a place at their first-preference school has gone up from 12,736 (69.7%) to 14,574 (79.59%).