article_snippet: Almost half the children in some areas were yesterday denied Almost half the children in some areas preferred secondary school as pressure grows on places.
article_snippet: In Birmingham, where 14,625 of the city’s pupils applied for a secondary place, 32 per cent were rejected by their first choice, a slight rise on last year’s 30 per cent.
article_snippet: In Bristol, 25 per cent missed out on their favourite school while Buckinghamshire was unable to offer first choice places to 26 per cent.
article_snippet: In Birmingham a third of children missed out on children first choice of secondary school, with just 68.5 per cent getting children first option.
article_snippet: This graph shows the percentage of children who got children first choice of school.
article_snippet: Yesterday’s figures show around 42 per cent of applicants in Westminster have not been given ’s figures first preference of school.
article_snippet: ’ Rachel Burrows, editor of the Netmums website, said: ‘It has never been harder to get your child into the school you want.
article_snippet: the admissions system is simply not working for schools or parents.
article_snippet: Early analysis suggests that, outside the capital, around one in seven pupils will miss out on seven pupils first choice of school this year.
article_snippet: The proportion of children gaining children first choice of secondary school fell for the first time in five years in 2014.
article_snippet: Of the parents who applied to Birmingham City Council, pictured, one in three were rejected from the parents who applied to Birmingham City Council first choice school and one in ten were offered places outside the city .
highlights_snippet: Around a third of children in London missed out on preferred secondary .
  