In September primary and infant schools in the borough and across the UK will welcome their new pupils.
Data published by Havering Council has revealed how schools in the borough allocated places, the offers received and preferences they offered.
Four primary and infant schools in the borough have been revealed to have offered more places than their respective capacities, each just one above their cap.
Elm Park Primary in South End Road offered a total of 61 places, with a capacity of 60.
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52 of these places were offered to applicants who listed the school as their first choice, with the remaining nine offered to second choice applicants.
In Plumpton Avenue, Hornchurch, Hacton Primary offered 88 places.
The school, with a capacity of 87, offered 80 of these to first choice applicants, six to second place applicants, and a single place to an applicant with the school listed as their third choice.
Scotts Primary in Bonington Road, Hornchurch, offered 59 places to applicants who had the school listed as their first choice.
Another two places were offered to second choice applicants, taking the total number of places offered to 61.
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Upminster Infants in St Mary’s Lane was the last school to offer more places than its capacity, extending 91 instead of 90.
All 91 spaces were offered to first choice applicants.
The data from Havering Council revealed that 22 primary and infant schools in the borough offered all of their places.
These include Ardleigh Green Infants, Gidea Park Primary, The Mawney School and more.
Only 32 school places were offered by St Peter’s Catholic Primary out of a capacity of 60 spaces, making up just more than half of its capacity at 53.3 per cent.
The primary school in Dorset Avenue, Romford, offered 26 places to first choice applicants, two to second choice applicants, and four to third choice applicants.
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Both Drapers’ Pyrgo Priory School in Settle Road, Harold Hill, and Oasis Academy Pinewood in Thistledene Avenue, Romford, offered 57 per cent of their available places.
Drapers’ Pyrgo Priory School offered 17 places out of its 30 space capacity, all to applicants with the school as their first choice.
Oasis Academy Pinewood offered just 34 places from its 60 place capacity. 28 of these were allocated to first choice applicants.
