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PLACING REQUESTS IN LOCAL AUTHORITY SCHOOLS IN SCOTLAND, 2003/04
Table 9: Percentage of placing requests refused (1), by reason for refusal, primary, secondary and special schools, 1 August 2003 to 31 July 2004 (percentages)
| Total | | Primary | | Secondary | | Special |
Under statutory entry age | Other primary | S1 | S2-S6 | Under school age | Under minimum leaving age | Over minimum leaving age |
P1 | P2-P7 |
Staffing constraints | 17.3 | - | 19.8 | 25.5 | 12.5 | 23.4 | - | - | - |
Accommodation constraints | 58.8 | 24.0 | 63.1 | 48.6 | 65.7 | 51.6 | - | 63.2 | - |
Effect on school discipline | 1.4 | - | 3.0 | - | 0.1 | 2.3 | - | 21.1 | - |
Educational well-being of pupils already at the school | 4.3 | - | 2.8 | 5.1 | 6.7 | 2.3 | - | - | - |
Continuity of the child's education | 7.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 10.5 | 6.1 | 17.2 | - | - | - |
Age, ability or aptitude of the child | 2.9 | 69.4 | 0.1 | - | - | 0.2 | - | 10.5 | - |
Child already required to discontinue at specified school | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Specified school is a special school and the child does not have special educational needs | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18.2 | - |
Specified school is a single sex school and the child is not of the sex admitted to the school | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Place retained for children moving into the catchment area | 7.2 | - | 8.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 3.1 | - | - | - |
Accepting the request would make it necessary for the Council to create an additional class or employ an additional teacher at a future stage of the child's primary education | 0.7 | - | 2.5 | 0.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Under section 38(1) of Standards in Scotland's Schools etc. Act 2000, education normally provided would not be suited to ability and aptitude of child | 0.2 | 5.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
(1) Refused at initial stage. Includes some which were then granted on appeal
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