Life is a sum of all your choices

Well done Cornwall Council, whose members will next week be told:

"For the 2011/12 school year, 5125 on-time applications were received for a place in secondary school. 5096 of these (99.4%) were offered a place in their first preference school. This meant Cornwall was ranked second of all local authorities in England for pupils being offered a place in their first preference secondary school. Five appeals were lodged by parents where pupils had been refused a place; two were upheld and the remaining three refused."

Interestingly the story is not so good for Cornwall's primary schools, where more than 600 parents failed to get their applications in on time and only 92% have got the school of their choice.