Across Wiltshire 91 per cent of those applying for primary school places for September have got a place at the school of their first choice. This is down one percentage point from last year.
Letters have gone out this week to parents of 5,211 children who will be starting school this year.
A further five per cent got their second choice school and one per cent got their third choice – or lower.
Wiltshire Council have been planning ahead to ensure there are enough primary places in the county.
The position elsewhere in the country is not so good. In London the first choice figure was 81 per cent. But in one London borough 15 per cent were denied a place at any of the schools from their maximum of six choices.
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