While the first offers to secondary schools will be made today, it will be some months before Jewish schools know whether they have enough places to accommodate all the children who want one.
Over the past two or three years, there has been particular pressure for places in mainstream Jewish state schools in North-West London.
Rabbi David Meyer, executive director of Partnerships for Jewish Schools, the Jewish Leadership Council’s education division, writes in guidance on the Pajes website: “There probably are enough places at Jewish schools at the moment, but they are not perfectly distributed in line with the demand.”
Last year, the cross-communal JCoSS increased its intake from 180 to 210 for year seven and will do the same this year.
