Almost half of children in areas of highest demand fail to get offer from preferred school as admissions numbers rise
Tens of thousands of children hold failed to get into their first choice of secondary school,with almost half of children in some London boroughs losing out as councils scramble to supply enough places to meet growing demand.
At the finish of national offer day on Tuesday, when more than half a million children in their final year of primary school find out which secondary school they will be attending in September, and thousands learned they had not got into any of their six chosen schools.
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Source: theguardian.com