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Teach First Parents Poll

Survey of British parents on behalf of Teach First on opinions about their choice of secondary school for their child.

  • More than nine in ten British parents (93%) think it is important to their child / children’s future that they attend their first choice of secondary school for them.
  • Four in five British parents (82%) say they are confident that their choice of secondary school will help their child / children get into a good job or good university.
  • Three quarters of British adults with children aged 0-10 (72%) say that they would be likely to appeal the decision if their child / children didn’t get into their first choice of secondary school.

Date Published: 01/03/2017

Categories: Education | GB | Public and communities | Social

Client: Teach First

Methodology

ComRes interviewed 2,017 British adults online between 10 and 16 February 2017. Data were weighted by age, gender, region and socio-economic grade to be representative of all British adults. All those British adults with children aged 0-18 (n=1,018) are referred to as “British parents”.

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