About Offer Odds

Why it exists

Every year, councils publish how Reception places were shared out at each primary school: how many children applied, how many places went to siblings, and how far away the last child offered a place lived. Those figures are public, but they are spread across long PDF documents, one year at a time, and they are hard to compare.

Offer Odds gathers them in one place, links every figure to its source, and replays your address against each recent year, so you can choose schools with a realistic back-up.

What we cover

We currently cover primary schools in Wandsworth, for Reception entry in September 2027.

How we handle the data

• Every cut-off, admission rule and school fact comes from a council or school publication. We link every figure to its source, with an archived copy where one exists.
• A person checks each figure against its source. Until then it is marked as a draft, and shown only with a visible draft-data banner.
• We use each council’s measuring method, but for now we estimate the point on each school site that the council measures to, so our distances can differ slightly from the council’s. Until address-level lookup is switched on, your home is placed at the centre of your postcode, so results are approximate. Read our method and see how accurate it is.
• We show what happened in past years, never a percentage, and we never promise a place. The council makes every offer.

Independence

Offer Odds is independent. It isn’t part of any council, school or estate agent, and nobody pays to change what a school page says.

Who runs it

Offer Odds is run by Offer Odds (Lime Creations). Questions, corrections and press enquiries: hello@offerodds.limecreations.co.uk.

If you spot a figure that doesn’t match the council’s publication, please tell us. We’ll check it against the source and correct it.